Alan Rake (born 1933) is an English journalist and writer about Africa.
[1] Alan Rake was educated at Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, politics and economics.
[2] He was invited by Jim Bailey, also educated at Oxford, to work for Drum magazine.
[3] In the late 1950s he opened a Nairobi office for the magazine, working as its East African editor.
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