Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…

Laikipia A quarter of a century ago I met two young South African men who had ridden their ponies 1,700…

Laikipia, Kenya   Out cross-country running on the farm in Kenya recently, I came face-to-face with a gang of bull…

   Nairobi Trout were first introduced into Kenya’s highland streams in 1905. Men like Ewart Grogan, ‘baddest and boldest of…

 Laikipia When I was a boy in Devon we had an orchard. On a string of autumns, as the fruit…

 Laikipia With a shriek, the warrior arched his body, readying to sling his spear at my chest. The tear-dropped javelin…

Juba I discovered a 1954 Morris Minor parked outside the Catholic mission station in Mopoi, South Sudan. The car had…

Hell’s Kitchen My ambition to open a fish and chip shop in Mogadishu has not happened yet, though I remain…

Laikipia We are privileged to live with lions on the farm. We hear them most nights. We encounter them frequently.…

 Kenya I perused the brochure produced by Tanzania’s state corporation for livestock ranching, aimed at attracting foreign investors. Under ‘beef…

Laikipia   ‘Good morning, sir!’ The warrior strides up to me on the high plains and shakes my hand. ‘May…