Corinne Hofmann

The White Masai

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  • Анна Романоваhas quoted8 years ago
    Touchdown

    Wonderful warm tropical air embraces us the minute we land at Mombasa Airport, and already I feel in my bones that this is my
  • Oksana Korkunovahas quoted7 years ago
    Hoping for the best, we go into the office on the third day only to find the official says there’s just one little problem: we have to get a certificate from the veterinary surgeon in Barsaloi that the shop is clean, and also before he can give us a licence we have to have a portrait of the president which has to hang in every shop. Lketinga wants to curse the man, but I restrain him
  • Oksana Korkunovahas quoted7 years ago
    Everyone is happy. Lketinga plays the cassette, and that sets everyone off talking. But when I give Saguna the brown doll that my mother bought for me everyone’s jaw drops, and Saguna runs screaming out of the hut. I have no idea what’s happened, but even Mama has recoiled from the doll. Lketinga asks me in all earnestness if it really is a dead baby
  • Oksana Korkunovahas quoted7 years ago
    Everyone is happy. Lketinga plays the cassette, and that sets everyone off talking. But when I give Saguna the brown doll that my mother bought for me everyone’s jaw drops, and Saguna runs screaming out of the hut. I have no idea what’s happened, but even Mama has recoiled from the doll. Lketinga asks me in all earnestness if it really is a dead baby.
  • Oksana Korkunovahas quoted7 years ago
    I’m running out of paper handkerchiefs too. With the best will in the world, there’s no way I can clean myself with a stone the way the Samburu do, even if it is more environmentally friendly than my bits of white paper left behind the bush.
  • Oksana Korkunovahas quoted7 years ago
    We go straight to the village, where Priscilla is astounded to see the two of us. She greets us warmly and makes chai
  • Oksana Korkunovahas quoted7 years ago
    When the train starts moving I could jump for joy. I lean back glowing like a lantern and laugh to myself. I’m overcome with a wonderful feeling of freedom. I could shout aloud and share my happiness and plans with everybody on the train. I’m free, free, free
  • zohra aitelcadihas quoted9 years ago
    After customs control a safari bus takes us to our hotel. Mombasa is on a peninsula, and we have to take a ferry across
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