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Laikipia In the cattle rustlers’ camp, I know as I write this that the warriors are sharpening their blades, staring…
Aidan Hartley: Kenya is special like no other African nation
As I write this, my hands are seared and bruised from holding a hot iron after branding our cattle. We…
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As I write this, my hands are seared and bruised from holding a hot iron after branding our cattle. We…
Aidan Hartley: How Muslim militants and Western jihadis wrecked enchanting Somalia
Wizards inland from the little Somali port of Barawe bewitched a person to come to them by banging a nail…
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Wizards inland from the little Somali port of Barawe bewitched a person to come to them by banging a nail…
Aidan Hartley: I have been shot at and bombed so why do I fear a pyramid?
It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…
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It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…
Killing in Kenya: Aidan Hartley tracks the last steps of an elephant
Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
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Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
A binge on alcohol and meat, plus hired sex and lodging — all for £1.50
Kenya Home is beyond the perimeter of modern Kenya and way off the grid. When the ancient generator goes off…
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Kenya Home is beyond the perimeter of modern Kenya and way off the grid. When the ancient generator goes off…
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Il Pinguaan Springs When I first saw the Pinguaan Springs they were small, fetid bogs set about with papyrus, the…
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A leopard has been on the rampage night after night. We know her because she often lurks in the woods…
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Colobus monkeys in the forest were throat singing like Tibetan monks. Mist rose from the Kericho tea gardens above us…
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Rift Valley ‘We’re on the frontline,’ I said. ‘And however many guns we had, it wouldn’t be enough against the…
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Rift Valley I am training for a half-marathon on the slopes of Mount Kenya in June and I must prepare…
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Rift Valley ‘I’ve got a brilliant idea,’ said Jools on the phone, his voice characteristically rising like a commentator on…
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Gilgil, Kenya Pembroke House, our children’s school, is a little slice of England set in Kenya’s Rift Valley. In the…
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Northern Kenya If I go out in darkness I dread neither the leopard nor the lion but I recoil from…
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Mogadishu I return to Mogadishu to find it’s calm – only a few assassinations, hit-and-run attacks, IEDs or suicide bombs…
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He was under a tiny patch of shade under a tree in one of the earth’s remotest spots. At Nadapal,…
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Kigali Eighteen years after Rwanda’s bloodbath I disembarked from my flight and was surprised to see that mortar craters no…
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Kenya coast A loud crash woke us in the middle of our first night at the beach house. ‘Robbers must…
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Laikipia My new pride and joy is a pedigree Boran bull named Woragus 317. We know him as Ollie. Sired…
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Juba After an all-night rainstorm in Juba I woke to see the mosquito that bit me in the dark. Now,…
