Nairobi, June 11 -- The cows bred for steak here are treated like royalty. They are fed well. They are kept comfortable. Nobody shouts at them. No loud rock music. No banging doors. No unnecessary st... Read More
Nairobi, June 11 -- Maybe you have wondered if you will ever meet someone from Olenguruone, way out on the edge of the Mau Forest. Maybe you haven't. Maybe you know it only as the name of a road conne... Read More
Nairobi, June 4 -- A few weeks ago in Stockholm's Gamla Stan, we had drinks in a cave bar. Dusk had fallen, and we were walking from Stortorget, the old square where the Nobel Prize Museum sits today... Read More
Nairobi, June 4 -- Wakiuru Njuguna comes down to the terrace restaurant of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. She is smaller than you remember her. Lighter, literally, and, as you will learn shortly, figurative... Read More
Nairobi, May 28 -- Duncan Onyango did not just grow up near a bank. He grew up inside one. His father was a Citibank man - old Nairobi Citibank, the original branch on Wabera Street, back when the len... Read More
Nairobi, May 28 -- Ever sat at that massive deck at English Point Marina when the raucous band isn't playing and just stared out across the channel without blinking? Because if you blink you might mis... Read More
Nairobi, May 14 -- How do some hotels do it? Build a wall of magic around themselves. Isn't that the feeling one gets at Kwetu Nairobi, Curio Collection by Hilton on Peponi Road? That somewhere during... Read More
Nairobi, May 14 -- Gideon Kipyakwai once worked with mice. He made them glow. This is not a metaphor. At the University of Hawaii, he spent years in a laboratory learning how to introduce something fo... Read More
Nairobi, April 30 -- One day you might find yourself standing at the platform of Tivoliparken in the small Swedish town of Kristianstad, looking across the railway line at this pub. You'll think that ... Read More
Nairobi, April 30 -- Size isn't everything. Evah Kimani will be the first to tell you this. She is not a big woman. "People always think I am not serious because of my size," she says. "When you're t... Read More