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Kenya We are on the beach, where our home is full of dystopian stories. My daughter Eve is whizzing…
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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…
The lords of poverty
Kenya I met Dr Tom Catena in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains — the site of an African war and famine few…
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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…
