Wild life
Kenya Hassan was our skipper. He’d take us in his dhow out on the Indian Ocean for trips along the…
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Laikipia Some are saved by Jesus and they are sober. For others, drunkenness is as natural as love-making, roasted meat…
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The Farm, Laikipia Outside the nightjars were calling and a zebra brayed in the valley. The constellations were still bright…
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Laikipia The principal of the local polytechnic was waiting for me in the kitchen. Frequently in the kitchen there is…
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The Farm, Laikipia I realised the worst drought of this generation was at last over this morning when two Samburu…
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On the lengthy train ride to Kyiv I read my Plokhy as we trundled through seas of mud, passing villages…
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When Wilfred Thesiger arrived in the port of Al Mukalla after his foot crossing of the Empty Quarter desert with…
The man who makes money where no one else dares to go
Rwanda The mineshaft is dark, the air humid and starved of oxygen. I follow Marcus Edwards-Jones out of the muddy…
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Kenya Tonj is a war-battered settlement on a river that eventually feeds into the White Nile, in South Sudan. When…
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Kenya Greetings from Africa, my beleaguered cousins. I’ve written before about how in 1973, Uganda’s Idi Amin telegrammed Queen Elizabeth,…
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Laikipia, Kenya No portrait of Boris Johnson hangs in the hall of Balliol, his old Oxford College. Hardly a surprise,…
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Laikipia Plateau, Kenya Until only a few years ago, the constellations blazed across the sky above the farm at night…
How Kenya viewed the Queen
As the Union Jack was run down the flagpole at Kenya’s independence in December 1963, Prince Philip said to Jomo…
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Kenya After two years of no rain, all colour has drained from the landscape on the farm so that by…
Continental drift
When will the West start to deal with Africa on its own terms?
Could this election be a turning point for Kenya?
In Kenya’s latest general elections, ‘The Hustler’ William Ruto has been declared our new President after a narrow victory against…
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Laikipia You know things are bad when the zebras are thin. Even during most droughts, zebras are like matrons at…
The right note
What’s behind Africa’s love affair with country music?
