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Nairobi The gangsters hadn’t heard of Brexit. ‘What is this “Breaks it”?’ they asked my friend hours after kidnapping…
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Laikipia I sip my Tusker beer on the veranda, staring at the elephant. He’s not the elephant in the…
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Laikipia I sip my Tusker beer on the veranda, staring at the elephant. He’s not the elephant in the…
Lost in translation
Trencherman was first published in Afrikaans in 2006 and translated into English for a South African readership shortly afterwards, but…
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Laikipia ‘Awayoo,’ was how our head stockman Apurra said ‘how are you?’ in his texts from Pokot country, where I…
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Laikipia ‘Awayoo,’ was how our head stockman Apurra said ‘how are you?’ in his texts from Pokot country, where I…
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Nairobi Nairobi’s old avenues were designed to be wide enough for a wagon and several span of oxen to U-turn…
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Nairobi Nairobi’s old avenues were designed to be wide enough for a wagon and several span of oxen to U-turn…
Not so happy valley
Simon Barnes opens with a presumably true idea, that we are all in search of our own versions of paradise…
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On New Year’s Day I took the family out for an evening walk on the ranch. Along the verges, lush…
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On New Year’s Day I took the family out for an evening walk on the ranch. Along the verges, lush…
The James Herriot of Africa
Great Rift Valley The mare hangs her head; her neck is swollen, her eyes bloody red, crammed by flies. She…
The James Herriot of Africa
Great Rift Valley The mare hangs her head; her neck is swollen, her eyes bloody red, crammed by flies. She…
The Kenyan night is like a busy shipping lane, but silent
Night falls like a fire curtain at seven and I go to bed not long afterwards, serenaded by bullfrogs after…
The Kenyan night is like a busy shipping lane, but silent
Night falls like a fire curtain at seven and I go to bed not long afterwards, serenaded by bullfrogs after…
What Ryszard Kapuscinski airbrushed out of his bestselling book
I once found myself on a lonely road in southern Ethiopia with the famous Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski. We were…
What Ryszard Kapuscinski airbrushed out of his bestselling book
I once found myself on a lonely road in southern Ethiopia with the famous Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski. We were…
Pigs, pranks, but no Dave
Memories of partying with the notorious Piers Gaveston Society at Oxford
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Laikipia A lion has just mauled and partially eaten a warrior who tried to throw a spear in my…
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Laikipia A lion has just mauled and partially eaten a warrior who tried to throw a spear in my…
Man’s greed and gain
Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…
Man’s greed and gain
Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…
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Laikipia A quarter of a century ago I met two young South African men who had ridden their ponies 1,700…
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Laikipia A quarter of a century ago I met two young South African men who had ridden their ponies 1,700…
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Laikipia, Kenya Out cross-country running on the farm in Kenya recently, I came face-to-face with a gang of bull…
