Laikipia   For a rancher north of Mount Kenya, a man’s best legacy might be a good bloodline of Boran…

Kenya When the late Tom Cholmondeley walked into his cell after being accused of murder in Kenya’s Rift Valley, etched…

Gilgil, Kenya   At our Gilgil hut in the Rift Valley I’ve had a new flower garden planted to welcome…

Kenya As soon as I pulled out of town, I knew I had made a mistake taking on the new…

   Nairobi The gangsters hadn’t heard of Brexit. ‘What is this “Breaks it”?’ they asked my friend hours after kidnapping…

   Laikipia I sip my Tusker beer on the veranda, staring at the elephant. He’s not the elephant in the…

Laikipia ‘Awayoo,’ was how our head stockman Apurra said ‘how are you?’ in his texts from Pokot country, where I…

Nairobi Nairobi’s old avenues were designed to be wide enough for a wagon and several span of oxen to U-turn…

On New Year’s Day I took the family out for an evening walk on the ranch. Along the verges, lush…

Great Rift Valley The mare hangs her head; her neck is swollen, her eyes bloody red, crammed by flies. She…

Night falls like a fire curtain at seven and I go to bed not long afterwards, serenaded by bullfrogs after…

I once found myself on a lonely road in southern Ethiopia with the famous Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski. We were…

   Laikipia A lion has just mauled and partially eaten a warrior who tried to throw a spear in my…