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Kahora discusses troubles in Kenya

Billy Kahora, the editor of Kenya’s first literary magazine, Kwani, gave a speech titled “The Kenya I Live In” in the Stern Conference Room at Hagerty Library, April 20. Kahora lives in Nairobi, Kenya, where the government threatens writers in an attempt to control information. He was in Pennsylvania speaking on behalf of City of [...]

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Internet pioneer and alumnus dies

Drexel University alumnus Paul Baran, one of the pioneers of the Internet, died March 26 at his home Palo Alto, Calif.; he was 84. His son, David, reported that Baran’s death was a result of complications from lung cancer. Baran was born in Gordno, Poland, April 29, 1926. When he was two years old, his [...]

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