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WORDS OF AFRICA

Beryl Markham: "The breath of my childhood"

From the novelist and pilot writings

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Watamu increasingly Very Important Persons, and summer never ends.
Now the resort town of Kenya has taken the place of Malindi and many other destinations once called "exclusive."
Times have changed and today the white beaches and the crystal clear sea...

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Tomorrow evening at 20.30 at the Marina Restaurant in Watamu, the traveler, documentary filmmaker and writer Marco Novati presents his travelogue in Eastern Africa entitled "Africa Maisha Marefu" (long life to Africa), supported by the artist Bice Ferraresi, who he...

My mal d'Afrique is dedicated to those who have never been in Africa.

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Let's pick up a passage we translated, taken from an amusing, ironic and by now unobtainable booklet by the Kenyan journalist and writer Binyavanga Wainaina, who unfortunately left us in May last year, who makes fun of the commonplaces of...

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di Franco L.

A quarter of a century ago, after a life of incessant work and entrepreneurial success in Rome, Remo...

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One of the most heartfelt, passionate, yet forceful and direct speeches at the Glasgow COP26 global environment conference came from a young Kenyan environmental lawyer and activist, Elizabeth Wathuti.

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The world's most luxurious resort is located in Kenya.
So decided the pool of experts in the sector who presented the "Travel and Leisure Best Award" 2021 to the

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We have selected ten sentences that express a feeling dedicated to Africa, understood more as a spiritual and moral, historical and social entity than as a geographical reality. The selected words are all taken from published...

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Smart Working in Watamu, why not?
It would be a great way to attract a new type of residential tourism (because we are ...

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Last March I went to Kenya for the 7thtime in my life, but it was the first time for my Daughter Victoria, who is now almost 2 years old.
Peter and Lilly are a just married couple with whom I...

The elephant, as well as a species to be protected for its precious tusks, can increasingly prove to be a friend of man and Nature.
Certainly the biggest, but also the most useful in things you would not expect. A...

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East coast of Africa. 
The boundaries of that linguistic and cultural unity known as Swahili culture range from Mogadishu in the north to Cape Delgado in Mozambique. 
A long coastline shared by a single language: the kiswahili, a mixture of...

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