KENYA STORIES
31-01-2021 di Mariella Furrer
Juliana was thought to be 16 or 17 on the day she was held down while an old woman cut at her genitals with a razor ...
LEGENDS
13-09-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIE
13-06-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIE
29-05-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
07-05-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
03-04-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
27-03-2020 di redazione
STORIES
25-03-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
19-03-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIE
16-03-2020 di Leni Frau
It is called "Anisan" and is a small technological innovation that comes from Kenya and will help people in...
MOVIES
13-03-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
African girls who, with the strength of a dream and with the help of those who have read in their...
TRAVELS
29-01-2020 di Leni Frau
From South Africa to Malindi by car to return to where love for the continent where they have lived for ten years was....
STORIES
25-01-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo
I wonder if the Government of Kenya has a special visa in mind for him, too, who comes to Kenya every...
PERSONS
12-11-2019 di Freddie del Curatolo
ITALIANS
26-10-2019 di Carlo Saba
PERSONS
23-10-2019 di Freddie del Curatolo
INITIATIVES
19-10-2019 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
29-07-2019 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
16-07-2019 di Leni Frau
ANNIVERSARIES
05-07-2019 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
04-07-2019 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
16-10-2018 di Leni Frau
24-02-2018 di Freddie del Curatolo
The history of the tourist Malindi begins about forty years ago but the first hotels, the...
TRADITIONS
17-01-2018 di Ferdinanda Vigliani
The 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 Arabic and bantu, whose texts date back to the 12th century.
But a strong visual element...
STORIES
29-11-2017 di redazione
Many famous labels of spirits and distillates around the world conceal, behind their sometimes curious and sometimes curious names, curious legends or interesting implications.
This is the case...
STORIES
22-09-2017 di redazione
The history of the first Chinese who landed on the shores of the Indian Ocean is six hundred years old.
It was in fact 1417, according to Beijing scholars who recently published a volume on the travels of the great oriental navigators, when Zang He with a fleet of 40 ships, arrived in Malindi, after having touched India, Oman and probably the coast of Eritrea.
Zeng He, a Chinese in Malindi.
STORIES
12-09-2017 di Freddie del Curatolo
In recent days, the Italian Justice has forever archived one of the most famous criminal chapters of the so-called "good Rome", the massacre of Circeo.
It was 1975 and two girls were raped and tortured (one died, the other was saved by pretending to be one) by three rampoluses of "good family".
One of them, Andrea Ghira, son of a famous Olympic water polo champion, managed to escape and, according to the investigation and repeated analysis of his remains over the years, he died from overdose in Spain in 1994, after joining the Spanish Legion based in Morocco.
STORIES
30-08-2017 di Antonio Altieri
Tsavorite turns fifty.
The green stone named after Tsavo National Park was discovered in 1967 by the Scottish geologist Campbell Bridges.
Since then it has become increasingly famous abroad in Kenya and Tanzania, the only countries in which it is located.
STORIES
06-08-2017 di Freddie del Curatolo
Most Kenyan citizens live with salaries or income that does not exceed € 100 per month.
Since gaining independence, Kenya has never done much to elevate its people's status, especially by creating the prerequisites: improving schooling, lowering healthcare costs and improving services.
SPORT
25-06-2017 di redazione
It does not stop the fairy tale of the "barber of Limuru", that a 44-year-old continues to be the protagonist in the marathon of the world after having established three years ago the record of all time in the classic competition of Milan.
STORIES
18-05-2017 di redazione
STORIES
16-05-2017 di Freddie del Curatolo
LIBRI
05-05-2017 di Freddie del Curatolo
It is a passionate story, not just from the great Christian spirit of the protagonist and his travel companions.
That of Monsignor Joseph Alexander, here in Kenya known to everyone just as Joe, is a human affair that has a lot to teach and which raises red dust from the streets and villages of Kenya's most remote, harder to live and under continual blackmail Islamic Integrity.
Now Joe's story is a book, an "instant book" published by Velar and Marna in the "Faces of Hope" necklace and distributed by Santina Foundation.
They were Muslims, but surely more bandits than fanatics, the Shifta who in 1993 attacked Joe along with two other prelates on the way to Lamu, between Witu and Mpeketoni. It was years when it was really dangerous to go over a hundred kilometers from Malindi.
STORIES
21-04-2017 di Maurice Shutgens
In the past months, Laikipia in central Kenya has seen numerous incidences of the killing of wildlife by armed pastoralists.
The situation remains volatile in places, with drought and local politics being the primary reasons for the unrest.
Elephants have come into the firing line, with over 20 killed in recent months and more injured. Some of the injured do not recover, but sometimes there is a glimmer of hope.
STORIES
15-04-2017 di Freddie del Curatolo
Sun and salted sand, blinding white that goes to fade fast in the passing clouds, as if the earth of Africa wanted to shake off a nagging patina.
The green of the bush is punctuated by tall palms contours and slopes until, won dall'arsura, it turns blue.
Far away, you can see the platform for space research base of Italian San Marco.
In this surreal scene, unprecedented glimpse Kenyan fourteen years ago was born Baraka Badi.
We Ngomeni, thirty kilometers from Malindi, on the road leading north toward Somalia.
STORIES
01-02-2017 di redazione
"We are passionate about Africa and mountain biking, so we decided to take a good part of Tsavo Road, from Malindi to Langobaya to enjoy it even as it has always been: wild, dusty and simple as the people who live at its edge" .
THE TRIP
10-01-2017 di Giovanni Tartaglia
Often during normal and sometimes tedious passing of our existence, we imagine to go away, to escape or just to make a nice trip, if anything, better, during the winter period.
STORY
24-10-2016 di redazione
For many of us it is unthinkable to undertake an experience of volunteering in one of the slums in the world, in the side of Nairobi that rivals the Brazilian favelas to conquer the sad black knit suburban agglomeration poorest and forlorn on the planet.
STORIES
28-06-2016 di redazione
The evening-event on Saturday, June 25, with the exhibition "Mijikenda" Leni Frau and the show of ...
KENYA STORIES
27-08-2015 di Freddie del Curatolo
It 's true, as he wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the most precise thinkers and evocative of Africa, the story, the Black Continent, is transmitted orally and legend becomes myth, but the culture, prose and literature need of paper, of pages, of written words.
In one word, of books.
In Kenya the poorest and desolate, there are dozens and dozens of kilometers without a library, with makeshift schools under acacias and baobabs, or in temporary huts.
REMEMBRANCE
28-02-2015 di Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
11-01-2015 di Freddie del Curatolo
ADVENTURES
10-12-2014 di redazione
Philip home is in Mambrui and there he fell in love for Africa, Claudia loves to travel.
The passion for cycling brought them together and they decided to get back on the Kenyan coast, starting from Cape Town and being all the way on two wheels, 7000 kilometers of beauty, labor, culture and unique emotions.
To tell this adventure, a blog: www.cyclearoundafrica.com also opened.
Always readers malindikenya.net, reveal how was their initiative.
"There are a thousand ways to travel the world - explains Claudia, from Mozambique, where they are now - we have chosen to do it by pedaling and pedaling finally begin our adventure in Africa.
We started on 4 November from Cape Town and started pedaling northward with Mambrui destination, where Philip has home by 90 years and where he learned to love Africa, in an authentic and profound ".
19-02-2013 di Charo Banda
"As long as I am alive, this theatre will not be sold for a supermarket or anything else that has...
STORIES
05-12-2011 di Freddie del Curatolo
Hundreds of thousands of tourists, many of them Italian, from the past twenty years have traveled back and forth the Mombasa-Malindi.
Who knows how many of them will have noticed a detail that has not changed since then.
STORIES
06-01-2011 di Freddie del Curatolo
From today you can safely call me Mbogo Kimera and I will try to answer you, with a proud smile.
It is a great honor for me to become a turnaround and have been invested in this "honorary tribe" during an official ceremony in the village of the MADCA association for the recovery and preservation of the culture and traditions of the Giriama.
STORIES
10-11-2010 di Freddie del Curatolo
This is the story of a great tree that, with the years, has the humility to return to the earth after each ascension, and reborn stronger and wiser than before.
But it is also the story of human cruelty, that animal capable of destroying dreams and passions to satisfy their own interests.
In the last year, in Malindi, hundreds of tourists and so many residents have discovered the magic of the Roots, an unusual local built in the midst of a ninety-meter diameter zanzibar ficus.
MALINDI
24-10-2008 di Freddie del Curatolo
Sometimes, in Africa, even the misadventures have a happy ending.
Some will hardly believe it, but you can lose, no petrol, no money, no cell phone in the middle of the bush and be able to return home without a scratch, thanks to the humanity of the local population.
It 'happened to Aldo V. Como original Italian, which for years has a villa in Malindi where usual "winter".
The other morning he left the house with his jeep, direct to breakfast. Who knows what was going through your mind, observing the green African reality, but decided to take a stroll a bit 'longer than usual.
