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Laikipia, Kenya During our evening walk on the farm, Claire kept looking around nervously instead of engaging in conversation.…
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The guests at my brother-in-law Rick’s 70th birthday lunch party were distinguished, silver-haired, well heeled. Long before Rick rescued the…
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Laikipia, Kenya On my way home to the ranch, I stopped for a beer with my neighbour Martin. It was…
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Laikipia, Kenya For weeks the farm has been in the eye of a storm, with violence swirling all around…
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Laikipia On Tristan Voorspuy’s hell-for-leather riding safaris across Kenya’s savannah, he cracked a bullwhip at predators that tried to eat…
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Laikipia On Tristan Voorspuy’s hell-for-leather riding safaris across Kenya’s savannah, he cracked a bullwhip at predators that tried to eat…
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Laikipia plateau, Kenya My great-grandpa Ernest Wise was an engineer who sailed to South Africa towards the end of the…
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Laikipia plateau, Kenya My great-grandpa Ernest Wise was an engineer who sailed to South Africa towards the end of the…
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Laikipia plateau, Kenya My great-grandpa Ernest Wise was an engineer who sailed to South Africa towards the end of the…
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We had my parents-in-law Gerry and Jean to stay with us on the farm over Christmas and being in a…
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We had my parents-in-law Gerry and Jean to stay with us on the farm over Christmas and being in a…
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Kenya I realised I had fallen from grace when we were dropped from the Queen’s birthday party guest list at…
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Kenya I realised I had fallen from grace when we were dropped from the Queen’s birthday party guest list at…
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Aero Club of East Africa The world looked so clean and untroubled during the flight in Bob’s light aircraft…
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Aero Club of East Africa The world looked so clean and untroubled during the flight in Bob’s light aircraft…
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Kenya A woman’s bottom cheered me up recently. The lady was walking ahead of me in a Kenya street and…
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Kenya A woman’s bottom cheered me up recently. The lady was walking ahead of me in a Kenya street and…
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Laikipia For a rancher north of Mount Kenya, a man’s best legacy might be a good bloodline of Boran beef…
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Laikipia For a rancher north of Mount Kenya, a man’s best legacy might be a good bloodline of Boran…
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Kenya When the late Tom Cholmondeley walked into his cell after being accused of murder in Kenya’s Rift Valley, etched…
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Kenya When the late Tom Cholmondeley walked into his cell after being accused of murder in Kenya’s Rift Valley, etched…
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Gilgil, Kenya At our Gilgil hut in the Rift Valley I’ve had a new flower garden planted to welcome…
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Gilgil, Kenya At our Gilgil hut in the Rift Valley I’ve had a new flower garden planted to welcome…
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Kenya As soon as I pulled out of town, I knew I had made a mistake taking on the new…
How Nairobi gangsters would vote in the EU referendum
Nairobi The gangsters hadn’t heard of Brexit. ‘What is this “Breaks it”?’ they asked my friend hours after kidnapping…
