Wild life
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…
Wild life
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…
Wild life
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…
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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…
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Nairobi The gangsters hadn’t heard of Brexit. ‘What is this “Breaks it”?’ they asked my friend hours after kidnapping…
How do we save the elephant? It’s simple: eat them
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…
South Africa’s Heart of Darkness
Trencherman was first published in Afrikaans in 2006 and translated into English for a South African readership shortly afterwards, but…
I’ve put a fence up around my farm, but it doesn’t keep the wildlife out
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…
The marabou defecation was so voluminous that the sapeur was beyond salvation
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…
The Luangwa is far from being a happy valley
Simon Barnes opens with a presumably true idea, that we are all in search of our own versions of paradise…
A close encounter with a puff adder
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…
