As travelers and nature enthusiasts, we know Kenya from the works of Karen Blixen and Kuki Gallman, but there is the Kenya that comes alive through the moving words of homegrown writers, such as the talented and courageous Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina, the academic-novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and storyteller Muthoni Garland, “who wants everyone in Kenya to read a book”.
While we leave it—and recommend—to you to explore Kenya through its literature, we also invite you to travel with us to the original African safari country—a land of vast untamed landscapes and awesome wildlife, true, but also of expressive, engaging people, proud tribes, crafts and cuisine traditions, lilting music, and fine beaches. For the heart of Kenya throbs as much in its modern cities, medieval towns, and age-old villages as it does in the clopping of an endless herd of wildebeest. It is heard as much in a foot-tapping Benga tune as it is in the roar of a lion travelling above the faintly rustling grassland.
