KENYA STORIES
17-09-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
Maya wakes up, see the dry grass outside her shack and goes to her camels. A gentle breeze...
KENYA TODAY
05-09-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
Climate change is also changing the eating habits of millions of people, especially where food is not also pleasure...
STORIES
21-08-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
All it takes is a little colour, artistic talent and, above all, a love of one's surroundings, and even...
STORIES
30-07-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
It's called Nderi Village, but you could read "Cinecittà" or if you prefer, "Kollywood", where the K...
KENYA GEN Z
25-07-2024 by redazione
Kasmuel McOure is one of the best known faces of the Kenyan Generation Z, which has been...
INNOVATION
19-06-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
One of the reasons why Africa is the continent that can save the world is that almost all its inhabitants...
KENYA STORIES
07-06-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
In Kenya, and in Africa in general, death is easier to accept than elsewhere, especially in the...
KENYA ENVIRONMENT
21-05-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
They are light but tenacious shrubs, entwining themselves by attaching themselves to trees with amber...
KENYA STORIES
17-05-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
very year in Kenya, 17 May is 'the date of the love song'.
A bit like...
08-05-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
An 'enlightened' farmer from Kenya is among the winners of the 'Gian Marco Moratti Award' 2024, the...
CONNECTIONS
27-04-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
There is an interesting and mutually rewarding direct link between Italian and Kenyan students...
GOOD STORIES
20-04-2024 by Freddie del Curatolo
Satubo. It stands for three tribes in Kenya: Samburu, Turkana and...
UKULELE SAFARI
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...
AFRICAN WILDLIFE
19-12-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
Even Google has celebrated the legend of Ahmed, the glorious elephant considered to be the...
MUSIC AND MORE
15-12-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
Kenya, unlike other nations on the continent, does not have a musical tradition with a precise...
05-12-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
NATIONAL HEROES
30-10-2023 by Leni Frau
Koitalel Arap Samoei was the most important of the 'orkoiyot', i.e. the spiritual and political leaders of...
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...
KENYAN TALENT
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...
AFRICA ON THE ROAD
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...
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...
BOOKS AND STORIES
13-08-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
"Life goes on, and with it the tenacity of the reporter. And that is why I wanted to remember...
MUSIC
13-06-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
In more than three decades in Kenya, I have repeatedly come across "taarab" music, a mixture...
TWO TRIUMPHS
11-06-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
20-01-2023 by Freddie del Curatolo
LEGENDS
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...
PEOPLE
12-01-2023 by Leni Frau
In the dusty plains of northeastern Kenya, shaded by acacia trees, six old men can be seen sitting...
STORIE
23-11-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo
Looking at the working-class neighborhoods and urban belt of Nairobi, one would think that Kenya...
ANNIVERSARY
09-11-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo
Kenya celebrates this year, a century of one of its excellences.
1922. An important...
STORIES
28-10-2022 by Freddie del Curatolo
Young Italian men and women volunteers in Kenya represent the real wealth of the interchange between
STORIES
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...
STORIES
27-03-2022 by redazione
CELEBRATIONS
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...
INNOVATION
04-02-2022 by redazione
Will young scholars, creatives, engineers or designers be the ones to save the world from becoming one...
STORIES
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...
FOOD
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...
07-12-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
The inheritance of the Italian gastronomic tradition of excellence in Nairobi, as is normal, passes to the...
STORIES
30-11-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
Thanks to many campaigns, especially local ones, to raise awareness on the part of associations and...
STORIE
27-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
22-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
High-profile guests leave the bar veranda and head for the enclosed space, just steps from the...
STORIES
14-10-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
This year, the fragmentation of television rights, which the new network DAZN won and then sold to...
STORIES
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...
KENYAN STORIES
04-08-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
Kona Mbaya means 'cursed crossroads' in Swahili.
In reality, those who live in...
CELEBRATIONS
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...
KENYA STORY
27-07-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
The story we are telling you today happened in Kenya one hundred years ago.
A century...
SPORT
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...
STORIES
17-03-2021 by Freddie del Curatolo
Just as when you leave Africa, perhaps painfully just because life takes you elsewhere, Africa...
KENYA STORIES
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 ...
LEGENDS
13-09-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo
Modern Kenya still lives on legends and revered characters from the past, including...
STORIE
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...
STORIE
29-05-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo
Ernest Hemingways, for lack of anything else, drank a gin and tonic in the late afternoon, after...
STORIES
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...
STORIES
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 ...
STORIES
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...
STORIES
19-03-2020 by Freddie del Curatolo
We're in Mombasa, late September 1918.
A little more...
STORIE
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...
MOVIES
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...
TRAVELS
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....
STORIES
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...
PERSONS
12-11-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo
A biographical book recounts the adventurous life between Kenya and Italy of Lyduska de Nordis, who...
ITALIANS
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 ...
PERSONS
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...
INITIATIVES
19-10-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo
If there is one category of disabled people who are even more disadvantaged than being born in...
STORIES
29-07-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
16-07-2019 by Leni Frau
According to experts, this is the longest-lived marathon runner in the world, but ...
ANNIVERSARIES
05-07-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
04-07-2019 by Freddie del Curatolo
01-05-2019 by redazione
STORIES
16-10-2018 by Leni Frau
24-02-2018 by Freddie del Curatolo
The history of the tourist Malindi begins about forty years ago but the first hotels, the...
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...
STORIES
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...
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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.
SPORT
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.
STORIES
18-05-2017 by redazione
Kenyans have chosen "Stella Wangu" the most beautiful love song ever in Kenya.
Nothing to do, either musically or...
STORIES
16-05-2017 by Freddie del Curatolo
LIBRI
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.
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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" .
THE TRIP
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.
STORY
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.
STORIES
28-06-2016 by redazione
The evening-event on Saturday, June 25, with the exhibition "Mijikenda" Leni Frau and the show of ...
KENYA STORIES
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.
REMEMBRANCE
28-02-2015 by Freddie del Curatolo
STORIES
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...
STORIES
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...
ADVENTURES
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 ".
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...
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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.
STORIES
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.
MALINDI
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.
