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I'm not in love for Kenya, but...

"We can enjoy it without losing objectivity

13-07-2023 by Lettore Anonimo

The first time I arrived in Kenya was, as is the case for so many other Italians, on...

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A KENYTALIAN WEDNESDAY

That need for serenity that Kenya gives

Our readers e.mail talking about Africa nostalgia

16-10-2022 by Leni Frau

The emails from our readers with "Africa Sickness," which we group and publish every Wednesday in...

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Kenya, when you wake up from the dream...

The story of a girl who left Watamu.

22-06-2022 by Jua Bahari

I lost Kenya, and with it I may have lost my innocence and, as Renato Zero sings, the "best years...

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A KENYTALIAN WEDNESDAY

More mails and posts about Kenya nostalgia

Our readers space still on; write us!

15-06-2022 by redazione

The column dedicated to "Africa-sickness," that is, the jumble of feelings evoked by coming and going...

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A KENYAN WEDNESDAY

I love Kenya because i don't want a fake life

The choice of a (former) globetrotter

08-06-2022 by Marco Bigi

Why do I love Kenya and want to live there?
I have always...

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Living in Kenya is no picnic

Why i tried and i will try again

01-06-2022 by Ella

Our space dedicated to readers who have decided or would like to move to Kenya, tell their experience and give their opinion continues. Today it is Ella's turn.

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You know why i love Kenya and i want to live here?

Our in-love-with-Africa readers' column

25-05-2022 by Axel Rossi

Hello, I am an Italian from the province of Bologna, I am forty-nine years old and separated.
I have a...

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How I survived a year without Kenya

The story of an italian tourist waiting to be back

17-02-2021 by Laura G.

Today it is exactly one year since I left "my" Africa.
I did...

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My Kenya...when tourism will be back

I miss it after the first holiday...how is possible?

11-10-2020 by Daniela Bussolino

I don't want to influence anyone even if in these moments I seem to be a Jehovah's Witness... but...

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Kenya, how an holiday became travel

"thank you Kenya, for making me believe that..."

29-02-2020 by Monica M.

Do you know the difference between "vacation" and "trip"?
Until two...

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I didn't understand a thing about Kenya

The evidence of a tourist and reader of our site

19-02-2020 by Anna Felsinea

I don't think I understand everything about this place after only fifteen days of vacation between savannah and ...

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When mal d'Afrique is agreeing

We didn't learn anything from them

06-10-2019 by Fabrizio Ancona

Sometimes I think that talking about "Mal d'Afrique" is an offence to all those people who...

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There's no story to tell about it

You only have to come back in Kenya as soon as possible

09-06-2019 by Piero

I came to Kenya for the first time because my dearest friend was there 6 times and when he came back he made me...

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24-03-2019 by Saretta

01-03-2019 by Leon Mufasa

17-02-2019 by Alessia Rossetti

20-01-2019 by Aldone Siena

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Africa saved my life

"...teach me every day how to grow"

13-01-2019 by Principe Myskin

It was a day in November.
The cold was biting on the outskirts, the car once again faced the main road and took me to the office.
Beside me, the world was running silent, gray and insensitive.
I already had the sky, the green in the heart of Africa.
The two holidays that I had done in February and in August they had changed me forever the soul.

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25-11-2018 by Ilaria Fioravanti

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14-11-2018 by Giovanna

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23-06-2018 by Daniele

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Kenya, Everyone's Garden

Where having nothing can be the greatest wealth

03-06-2018 by Alessandro Veneziani

Many years have passed since that February, and yes, February is my month, the month in...

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A place for you readers

send us your "mal d'Afrique" and we will publish it!

05-02-2018 by redazione

This space is dedicated to all the people who had to do with Kenya, on holiday, for job, guests of a friend, for voluntary service or by any other voluntary or unintentional chances, and who experienced so much the magic of this Country that they got affected by the sweetest "disease" existing in nature, that range of sensations, smells and feelings to which we can't give a precise name and which we simply call "mal d'Afrique".  
It's hard to explain a falling in love using words, it's easy to fall in the commonplaces, as well as the fear of trapping free and sublime thoughts in the cage of the written word. 
But among us, among "sick persons", we can do it. 
Herebelow anyone can leave the proof of his/her personal "mal d'Afrique" and narrate the consequences. 

please send an e-mail to:
info@malindikenya.net

send an e-mail to: info@malindikenya.net

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The sense of Africa that never leaves you

...makes you see everything wonderful, even if you have seen it the same elsewhere

04-02-2018 by Nicolò Bosco

What never abandons you is the sense of Africa... that you have always had... and you find again... and it...

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Our Africa, the trip of Andrea and Giovanna

"We learn a lot and we want to learn more"

24-01-2017 by Andrea Fast Scaramuzza

Much we have been told and just as we read about Africa before leaving for the first time.
On one side of the table, who served us plates filled with anxiety and fear: the most dangerous malaria, carried by a special mosquito who spends his life looking for the wazungu (white men, ed) arriving for the first time on the African continent, for which is absolutely necessary stuffing of pastiglioni for the duration of the trip and over despite the coverage is not 100%.
The terrorists of Al-Shabaab, which diligently await you at the gate as you try to figure out what's inside the Kenyan Samosa sipping your coffee you hoped was a Lavazza espresso, despite the statistics say that the odds of being in the middle of a attack are 1: 25m (being hit by lightning 1: 817mila ..): virtually find themselves in Africa during a thunderstorm is certain death.

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My own Mal d'Afrique

(taken by the book

16-09-2016 by Freddie del Curatolo

Imagine a space where sky does not dominate you
it runs through you
where you don't breathe air, you ...

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Kenya, Nakupenda Sana

Unforgettable scenes you keep inside

09-09-2016 by Claudia Morabito

Africa.
Inexplicable attraction has always made me believe that sooner or later we'd be.
Africa, the dark continent.
The third world, the savannah, the poor land where children are dying of hunger and thirst.
I read so much, I documented, I tried to understand what represents the African magic and the famous nostalgia for Africa.
I left in a critical moment, a few days in Paris by the attack and threats Isis towards the West and Europe always present.
I left full of emotions and hopes.

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Kenya, happy landing in the autumn of my life

Five months here and i feel born again

02-09-2016 by Amedeo

What could i still expect from life after a failed marriage? 
After seeing my two children to fly away happily to their lives, one in Australia to pursue a career as a construction engineer in Italy would have been impossible, and the other in England to do the bartender, waiting for an opportunity to open a place of her own.
Here I am, 61 years old, to dream of a different future than that age and concerns they would like to write on my skin and in my heart.
It 'took was a holiday, two weeks with a former colleague became my best friend, to understand that I had to take over my life for a while' time.

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My own Africa

"The trip does not simply open your mind: it gives it a shape" (B. Chatwin)

29-08-2016 by Matilde Calamai

As soon as the aircraft doors open and you climb down the steps until touching the african land, in Mombasa, you inevitably feel the magic. 
The air seems sweeter, you smell something unknown, maybe of faraway lands and, for sure, the heavenly light is the thing which mostly attracts you.
It is in that very moment that "mal d'Afrique" starts building its nest into yourself, like a virus. You don't realize that immediately because this ancient place enters slowly until becoming a crazy love you will never forget.

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My Mal d'Afrique

"...human energy thirst"

17-08-2016 by Carlotta Mawimbi

My mal d'Afrique is not nostalgia
it is thirst
thirst for human energy
voices
smells so familiar, in the morning when I wake up, at the end of a dream taking me out there ...
thirst for strong hands taking mine along the way,
thirst for never feeling myself alone;
for smiles,

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How i miss it!

"i will be back one day, i'm sure"

03-08-2016 by Luigi Cordasco

Today, at school i had to prepare a Powerpoint presentation on Kenya.
I looked through my photo archive, realizing that have already been almost three years since my goodbye and that I miss. Much.
I miss the sunburn at the foot playing barefoot, lunches to school under the blazing sun cheered by a paninazzo Pappa and Chakula, dip in the pool just back from school, the tuktuk speeding on Lamu road like a Lamborghini, trips to Che Chale, Rai international that made you see just what she wanted

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More than everything...Africa

I love you Africa, nakutamani

26-07-2016 by Anna Merlo

Raining outside, it's raining really hard and it's cold.
I close my eyes and try to imagine the rain of Kenya.
I remember when we went to bike through the bush with sunglasses and raining and I was laughing, I was laughing so much.
I keep remembering, moments, moments, thoughts, everything that I have lived, all past experiences.
I walk on the white beach, the background of the sea waves and distant voices.
I smile again.
I stop to look at the horizon.
Breath.

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Our Kenya, made us better persons

In Kenya you learn to let yourself go

01-07-2016 by Ilaria Pattaro e Giulia Zorzenoni

There are trips which you cannot come back, are the most important ones, the ones that change you, those after it is no longer the same.
After it's different, you're different.
And you're going to tell you that the trips more often, smiling, his eyes wet with emotion.
After trips as well, you're better.

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Because i never found a love like that

03-06-2016 by Chiara

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Soul in the red land

My heart is there

03-05-2016 by Cristel

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24-03-2016 by Dario Scaccabarozzi

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02-02-2016 by Maria Paola

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06-01-2016 by B.K.

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29-12-2015 by Vittoria Campese

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04-11-2015 by Manu

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30-10-2015 by Fernando L.

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20-10-2015 by Sara Martignoni

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08-10-2015 by Albertino

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07-10-2015 by Gianfranco

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My last Africa

09-09-2015 by Nico Colombo

Today I decided to leave the land I love, and these lines are for you ....

Are hours that go down tears me, but chasing me emotions that I can not stop.
I can not understand their meaning, or maybe I will not. I cling for a moment to my beliefs sometimes culture and harmful.
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche formulated the last hypothesis of eternal recurrence, the idea that the world process is cyclical and eternal,
superman yet life-affirming.

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02-09-2015 by Roberto

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13-08-2015 by Alessandro Veneziani

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I left my heart in Africa

"...where i know i'll be back"

02-07-2015 by Fedele Turci L'Odoard

I left my heart in Africa.
I put him under an acacia tree in the middle of the savannah.
Since I left I have not heard from him.
Every now and then, from here, I feel a scratch, as a raptor caught him.
Sometimes I feel a bite, like he's been bitten by a lion.

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19-06-2015 by Riccardo

14-05-2015 by Tamara

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07-05-2015 by Tullio

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03-04-2015 by Paolo T.

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05-03-2015 by Aldone Siena

04-03-2015 by Anna (13 anni)

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04-02-2015 by Cerino

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The African... SEAkness

Mal d'Afrique exists, i know because i felt it

06-01-2015 by Francesco Bertoni

I have been a diving instructor for several years and my passion for the sea and for travelling...

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20-12-2014 by Vilma

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13-11-2014 by Sandra

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12-10-2014 by Elisa

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06-12-2013 by Roberto Freschi

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My dream has a name: Africa

"you are my calling"

14-11-2013 by Federica Andreoli

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31-10-2013 by Anna Rita Garofalo

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05-09-2013 by Max

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15-08-2013 by Elena Z.

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A "Mal d'Afrique"

Not a philosophic essay, but notes of a cronic sickness

07-02-2013 by Giorgio "Ole Chuma" Ferro

02-10-2011 by Alessia

09-09-2011 by Alessandra Jua

31-08-2011 by Iole Savona

19-08-2011 by Malaika

08-06-2011 by Franco

20-05-2011 by Federica

Africa means look in your own soul

Africa envelops you, overwhelms you, loves you....

15-04-2011 by Cristina 62

Africa is love is passion, every return is a plunge to the heart, an emotion that is hard to describe, the feeling...

17-03-2011 by Prando

16-02-2011 by Benny

12-01-2011 by Giorgia Ferrero

04-02-2009 by Ele