Laikipia plateau, Kenya My great-grandpa Ernest Wise was an engineer who sailed to South Africa towards the end of the…

We had my parents-in-law Gerry and Jean to stay with us on the farm over Christmas and being in a…

 Kenya I realised I had fallen from grace when we were dropped from the Queen’s birthday party guest list at…

 Aero Club of East Africa   The world looked so clean and untroubled during the flight in Bob’s light aircraft…

Kenya A woman’s bottom cheered me up recently. The lady was walking ahead of me in a Kenya street and…

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…