Stories

UKULELE SAFARI

Safari in Kenya playing ukulele, Michela's dream

The engaging initiative of the Italian manager

16-01-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo

Strive to take life with a smile and at the same time give it to those who need it most. All...

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STORIES

How the Kenyan 'Hollywood' has born

The growth of Nderi Village, a movie hub

14-01-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo

It's called Nderi Village, but you could read "Cinecittà" or if you prefer, "Kollywood", where the K...

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AFRICAN WILDLIFE

Ahmed, the Kenyan elephant who became a national treasure

Even Google celebrates the 'Big Tusker' whose legend turns 50

19-12-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Even Google has celebrated the legend of Ahmed, the glorious elephant considered to be the...

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MUSIC AND MORE

Jambo Bwana's 50 years of 'them mushrooms"

History and evocations of the best-known Kenyan pop-song

15-12-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Kenya, unlike other nations on the continent, does not have a musical tradition with a precise...

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NATIONAL HEROES

Who was Koitalel, Nandi chief who challenged the British

Treacherously murdered at the time of the Kenya-Uganda railway

30-10-2023 by Leni Frau

Koitalel Arap Samoei was the most important of the 'orkoiyot', i.e. the spiritual and political leaders of...

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Young Ashley and the Kenyan Olympic skiing dream

The story of the athlete Ongonga, an African talent raised in Italy

18-09-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

She is one hundred per cent African, but was born in Italy, in the heart of the Ciociaria region, speaks...

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KENYAN TALENT

Hassan Duba, beauty and resourcefulness 'made in Kenya'

The success story of the model influencer from Isiolo

06-09-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

In the arid moors of Isiolo, north of Kenya where the green slopes of Mount Kenya have already given...

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AFRICA ON THE ROAD

From South Africa to Kenya with a Fiat Panda

Dennis' travels, between adventure and solidarity

03-09-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

By a small Fiat Panda from South Africa to Kenya. It is not a bet, that of Dennis Pesci from...

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Francesco, beyond destiny on African peaks

The italian climber and doctor's adventure

19-08-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

The lion in Africa is known not only for its supremacy within the Animal Kingdom, but for the great...

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MUSIC

Mombasa's taarab conquers Europe

The group Lelele Africa and the Swahili musical tradition

13-06-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

In more than three decades in Kenya, I have repeatedly come across "taarab" music, a mixture...

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STORIES

24-01-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

The story of the oldest hotel in Kenya

Mombasa's Africa Hotel was built in 1898

20-01-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

It was 1898, and British ships were beginning to arrive in the port of Mombasa from India, loaded with...

LEGENDS

Cierume, the warrior dancer of Embu

The story of the fearsome Kenyan tribal leader

17-01-2023 by Leni Frau

The legend of Cierume, the warrior dancer from Embu, a forest town in the eastern foothills of Mount Kenya, continues...

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PEOPLE

Abba Gadas, this is how the Borana resisted drought

The story of the ancient Kenyan tribe's society

12-01-2023 by Leni Frau

In the dusty plains of northeastern Kenya, shaded by acacia trees, six old men can be seen sitting...

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03-01-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo

Gabriel Omolo was one of the great Kenyan musicians.
He played "benga," one of the characteristic...

STORIE

In the popular Nairobi that dreams and crumbles

Three buildings collapsed in a week in the suburbs

23-11-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

Looking at the working-class neighborhoods and urban belt of Nairobi, one would think that Kenya...

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ANNIVERSARY

A century of Tusker, the iconic Kenyan beer

The story of East Africa's most famous alcoholic drink

09-11-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

Kenya celebrates this year, a century of one of its excellences.
1922. An important...

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STORIES

Asja and Marta, Italian volunteers in the heart of Kenya

The story of 2 young people who chose community service in Tabaka

28-10-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

Young Italian men and women volunteers in Kenya represent the real wealth of the interchange between

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TRADITIONS

Charm and abuse of the Luo marriage in Kenya

A special ritual that is disappearing

27-05-2022 by Leni Frau

Dowry, kidnapping, symbolic battles, twists and turns and less and less predictable endings: the wedding...

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STORIES

50 years ago the jealousy murder of an italian aristocrat

The story of Piero Guarienti and the lady who shot him

04-04-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

Exactly half a century ago, in Kenya, the most tragic crime of jealousy involving two Europeans took place. The...

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CELEBRATIONS

100 years ago, first kenian tragic protest

A leader jailed, a woman killed with so many others

16-03-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

One hundred years ago, on March 16, 1922, Kenya for the first time realized that it was a land populated by...

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INNOVATION

Fron kenyan dumpsites a hope for poor people to walk

Two young swiss make prosthetics from Dandora waste

04-02-2022 by redazione

Will young scholars, creatives, engineers or designers be the ones to save the world from becoming one...

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STORIES

Gogo, kenyan granny still in school at 98

She started 7 years ago, a movie narrate her story

11-01-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

This year she will be ninety-eight years old and only the pandemic has made her lose a school...

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FOOD

How "fusion" is Kenya cuisine

How restaurants have changed in 20 years

09-01-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo

At the end of the last century, or rather in the eighties and nineties that had launched Kenya as...

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Solo Grano success: future of italian heritage in Kenya

Cristiano and Nico Traldi: the tradition of pizza in Nairobi

07-12-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

The inheritance of the Italian gastronomic tradition of excellence in Nairobi, as is normal, passes to the...

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STORIES

Rukia, symbol of disables rights in Kenya

She does everything with feets, will receive a scolarship

30-11-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

Thanks to many campaigns, especially local ones, to raise awareness on the part of associations and...

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STORIES

Ocean Beach marks 10 years as italian hospitality pride in Malindi

Resort has VIP's, international businessmen and a Dubay style staff

22-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

High-profile guests leave the bar veranda and head for the enclosed space, just steps from the...

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STORIES

When Malindi got Serie A only in a veranda

This season no football on Rai Italia, like 30 years ago

14-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

This year, the fragmentation of television rights, which the new network DAZN won and then sold to...

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STORIES

The most beautiful orchids of Kenya are italian

In the flowers Nairobi paradise of Giachino's

03-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

October in Kenya is the month of orchids and in Nairobi there is a magical garden bursting with...

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KENYAN STORIES

George, 50 km by feet to join his school dream

The touching story of a kenyan boy in Kitale

04-08-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

Kona Mbaya means 'cursed crossroads' in Swahili.
In reality, those who live in...

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CELEBRATIONS

90 years of a kenyan myth: Denys Finch Hatton

Noble, hunter, playboy: life of Karen Blixen's dandy

01-08-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

Ninety years ago, the most famous dandy in the history of British Africa died in Kenya when his plane crashed with...

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KENYA STORY

Doctor riding a zebra who saved Nairobi from plague

A century before pandemic, Kenya could have cried more

27-07-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

The story we are telling you today happened in Kenya one hundred years ago.
A century...

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SPORT

The story of Kiprogut, first legend of kenyan athletic

in 1964 in Tokyo he won the first olympic medal

09-06-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

"My school was 15 km away from the village where I lived. I only had two options: to go and come back...

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STORIES

Africa and watercolors to ease pain for the death of his son

Luigi lost Manuel one year ago: his remembrance is art

17-03-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo

Just as when you leave Africa, perhaps painfully just because life takes you elsewhere, Africa...

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KENYA STORIES

Juliana, blood on the samburu bride

An european lady witness to FGM in Kenya

31-01-2021 by 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 ...

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LEGENDS

The legend of Gor Mahia, the Luo wizard

Healer and clearvoyant, gives name to the best kenyan football team

13-09-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

Modern Kenya still lives on legends and revered characters from the past, including...

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STORIE

Man in chains, an italian documentary in Kenya

Malindi inland, a story about mental illness and traditions

13-06-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

Even today the coast of Kenya, where civilization in many ways has descended like a cleaver on centuries-old...

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STORIE

Covid-19 crisis: Fairmont Norfolk close down

The historical hotel leaves home all employees

29-05-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

Ernest Hemingways, for lack of anything else, drank a gin and tonic in the late afternoon, after...

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STORIES

Nairobi: homeless during Covid-19 emergency

The terrible paradox of Kariobangi North

07-05-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

They could not have chosen a worse time, the bulldozers of the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company, the...

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STORIES

Covid-19: two kenyans create a ventilator

Cheap project now to be approved by experts

03-04-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

A wiper motor, a relay, two switches, a piston, an elbow pipe, a bulb, a vacuum cleaner bag, a tank ...

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STORIES

Karema, the boda boda operator anti-ban

Maybe after one day he understood, maybe not

25-03-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

"What can I tell you, for me, work comes before life. Life is mine alone, with work I make the whole...

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STORIES

When the spanish flu killed thousands of kenyans

The worst pandemy of history came to Africa in 1918

19-03-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

We're in Mombasa, late September 1918.
A little more...

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STORIE

Kenyan girls create a system to track elephants

They were awarded and invited in a US University

16-03-2020 by Leni Frau

It is called "Anisan" and is a small technological innovation that comes from Kenya and will help people in...

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MOVIES

The dreams of 5 african girls in an italian movie

Grace and Wangare, young kenyans against misery and violences

13-03-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

African girls who, with the strength of a dream and with the help of those who have read in their...

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TRAVELS

Italian couple's safari from South Africa to Malindi

Two months trip to go back to La Malindina restaurant

29-01-2020 by 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....

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STORIES

The kenyan holidays of a finlandian osprey

From Helsinki to Lake Victoria, found by a fisherman

25-01-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo

I wonder if the Government of Kenya has a special visa in mind for him, too, who comes to Kenya every...

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KENYANS

06-12-2019 by Leni Frau

She was born in Mombasa from an English father and a half Seychelles and a Kenyan mother. She...

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MEMORIES

17-11-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

PERSONS

Lyduska, the goritian countess who loved Kenya

In a book the story of a romantic and strong italian lady

12-11-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

A biographical book recounts the adventurous life between Kenya and Italy of Lyduska de Nordis, who...

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ITALIANS

Carlo Saba and memory of Nyeri shrine

With the wife he refurbished a symbol of italian prisoners in Kenya

26-10-2019 by Carlo Saba

When in Italy my friends ask me why I am interested in this land so distant and different, I ...

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PERSONS

Mariga, from Champions League to Kenya politics

Former Inter player runs for MP in Kibera, Nairobi

23-10-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

Using the popularity of the football champion to try to climb to the top of politics or at least to bring...

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INITIATIVES

Nomad disables in Kenya: their glory days

Desert Wheel Race with the italian partner Afreeca Eclectic

19-10-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

If there is one category of disabled people who are even more disadvantaged than being born in...

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STORIES

Chiara and her "malindian" degree

Story of passion and wisdom from Italy to Kenya

29-07-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

Her name is Chiara Cammelli, she is 21 years old, she was born and raised in Florence and she recently...

STORIES

Running and camel soup, secrets of longevity of John Ruengo

Oldest world's marathon man is kenyan, but now...

16-07-2019 by Leni Frau

According to experts, this is the longest-lived marathon runner in the world, but ...

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ANNIVERSARIES

Tom Mboya, 50 ys ago the assassination of the kenian Kennedy

July 5th 1969, Kenya lost one of his fervent minds

05-07-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

Exactly fifty years ago, on 5 July 1969, Kenya lost in a tragic and violent way one of the most fervent and...

05-05-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

Joyce, Dabaso angel who save mangrove trees

The story of women awarded as a conservationist

01-05-2019 by redazione

Planting mangroves, tending them and protecting them is traditionally a male job.
In Mida Creek, women have to do something else: you...

22-04-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

09-04-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

25-03-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

20-03-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

28-02-2019 by redazione

09-02-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo

19-10-2018 by redazione

18-10-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

STORIES

Kenya Ice Lions, from Nairobi to Canada

17-10-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

14-10-2018 by Leni Frau

10-10-2018 by Leni Frau

19-07-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

03-07-2018 by redazione

24-06-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

12-06-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

30-04-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

When the evening bar in Malindi was a german one

Biergarten: the pub on Lamu Road where you could face...everything

24-02-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

The history of the tourist Malindi begins about forty years ago but the first hotels, the... 

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22-02-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

TRADITIONS

17-01-2018 by 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...

13-01-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo

STORIES

The story of the name "Tusker" on the famous kenian beer

A tragic legend brought the name and the elephant logo to one of Kenya symbols

29-11-2017 by 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...

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STORIES

600 years ago the tales of the first chinese in Malindi

Zang He lived for one year in Kenya in 1417, historians say

22-09-2017 by 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.

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STORIES

When the Circeo monster made pizzas in Malindi

Trial to the killer Andrea Ghira buried forever

12-09-2017 by 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.

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STORIES

Tsavorite, 50 years of the Kenya green gold

Legend of the famous Tsavo stone, now rare and expensive

30-08-2017 by 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.

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STORIES

Malindi quarryman wins Kshs, 10M betting

Kenyan dream is a jackpot: "I will send siblings in a good school"

06-08-2017 by 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.

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SPORT

The dream of the Limuru barber never ends

44 years old Mungara still running around the world

25-06-2017 by 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.
 

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STORIES

The true story of "Stellah", the kenyan love song

After 25 years is an anthem for many people

18-05-2017 by redazione

Kenyans have chosen "Stella Wangu" the most beautiful love song ever in Kenya.
Nothing to do, either musically or...

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STORIES

After 22 years she find the true mother in Malindi

The story of Romina, son of a kenyan and an italian

16-05-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo

Romina Pugliese is a beautiful 22-year-old girl living in Ginosa, in the province of Taranto, is a four-month-old mother of a beautiful little girl and in love with her companion who runs the busy bar in the center of town.

LIBRI

The story of bishop Joe in Kenya is now a book

Shot by the shiftas in 1993, is back in Dadaab

05-05-2017 by 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.

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STORIES

Kenya, giving to an elephant a second life

Volatile situation in places with drought and local politics being the primary reasons for the unrest.  

21-04-2017 by 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.

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STORIES

Baraka, the success of the "guy of salt"

From Ngomeni to Harambee Stars, a dream came true

15-04-2017 by 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.

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STORIES

Tsavo Road by bike before the tarmacking

Cycling from Malindi to Langobaya to see the old Sabaki valley

01-02-2017 by 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" .
 

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THE TRIP

Four days prisoner in Istanbul dreaming of Kenya

The story of one of the tourists still in the turkish hub

10-01-2017 by 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. 

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STORY

Caterina, from the slums of Nairobi to Malindi huts

A trip into deep Kenya loving the others

24-10-2016 by 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.
 

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STORIES

Capalbio, Kenya

A village in connection with Kenya for years

28-06-2016 by redazione

The evening-event on Saturday, June 25, with the exhibition "Mijikenda" Leni Frau and the show of ...

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KENYA STORIES

The travelling library of Kenya

Culture moves by camel

27-08-2015 by 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.

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STORIES

Gogo, the kenyan granny who went to school at 90

She's determinated to succed at Primary School

12-01-2015 by Freddie del Curatolo

Exams never end, Eduardo De Filippo used to say. In Kenya it seems that even first grade lessons...

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STORIES

Micaela sold everything to help children in Likoni

Former adv manager now is a volunteer in Kenya

11-01-2015 by Freddie del Curatolo

He left Italy and his job as an advertiser, to work in a "children center" on the Kenyan coast...

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ADVENTURES

Filippo and Claudia, a cycling Mal d'Afrique

Italian couple from Cape Town to Malindi by bike

10-12-2014 by 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 ".

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The stort of Cleopatra Theatre in Malindi

Owners: "Until we are alive, no other businesses here"

19-02-2013 by Charo Banda

"As long as I am alive, this theatre will not be sold for a supermarket or anything else that has...

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STORIES

Suma, that tyre from thirty years in Matsangoni

The story of the tyre hanging on a tree on Malindi-Mombasa road

05-12-2011 by 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.
 

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STORIES

Me, Freddie del Curatolo, now honorary giriama

My name is Mbogo, i'll be spokesman of an ethnic group in trouble

06-01-2011 by 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.

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STORIES

Roots Malindi, an african parable

An unique place, historical site buried by modern age

10-11-2010 by 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.

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MALINDI

Got lost 500 km far from Malindi, italian retired cared for in the bush

Mr. Aldo drove enchanted in the interior until he finished petrol

24-10-2008 by 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.

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