LIFE IN KENYA
15-06-2024 by Michele Senici
It was late September 2021, I was still in Nairobi.
I was living...
TALES
30-04-2024 by Michele Senici
Let it rain, my love. Yatapita, it will pass!
What won't you give up? The stubborn and...
SOCIETY
06-04-2024 by redazione
They are the cross and delight of collective transport in Kenya, particularly on the disconnected...
SHORT STORY
04-11-2023 by Michele Senici
What you encounter on the road from Mombasa as it unwinds southwards, all the way to Lunga...
TALES
28-09-2022 by Claudia Peli
He lifted her chin with his fingertips and looked into her eyes.
He noticed...
TALES
25-09-2022 by Claudia Peli
In previous days they had seen some old men, worn out by sun, wind and salt, repairing their large...
TALES
23-09-2022 by Claudia Peli
He bent over the bucket and looked into it closely: yes, it was indeed a naked baby, only...
TALES
20-09-2022 by Claudia Peli
They found it in an abandoned bucket under a mabati canopy in the forest.
A red bucket...
IRONY
15-06-2022 by Massimo Vita
There is a lot of talk about "African Sickness" syndrome, which unlike the so-called saudade, does not...
05-02-2022 by Ferdinanda Vigliani
This story is available only in italian language
RACCONTI
18-01-2022 by Claudia Peli
I left early this morning to go join the gym.
As I passed by the resort I saw...
TALES
17-06-2021 by Claudia Peli
In the week dedicated to those of our fellow countrymen of a certain age who move or come to "winter" on...
TALES
25-05-2021 by Marco Sbringo Bigi
"I'll pick you up tomorrow morning at eight o'clock," Ivo said, and so it was.
A blast of...
STORIES
18-05-2021 by Marco Sbringo Bigi
A tray full of grilled lobsters towered in the middle of the table surrounded by battered vegetables and basmati...
STORIES
12-05-2021 by Marco Sbringo Bigi
RACCONTI
09-05-2021 by Marco Sbringo Bigi
There are no traffic lights in Malindi, but even if there were, they would probably be ignored...
TALES
16-02-2021 by Marco "Sbringo" Bigi
Shella, pronounced Scèla, is an old quarter of Malindi in which, among the thousands of influences...
TALES
12-02-2021 by Marco "Sbringo" Bigi
"What a funeral air, what happened to you my friend?" the Sappe asked me when I...
TALES
12-01-2021 by Marco "Sbringo" Bigi
TALES
29-12-2020 by Claudia Peli
I've been looking for Mungo, my shamba boy, for over an hour in all the remote corners of the ...
TALES
26-12-2020 by Claudia Peli
The faithful askari Kamau has gone on a ten-day holiday: he has returned to his village in the north to rejoin his large tribe.
He...
STORIES
28-04-2020 by Marco "Sbringo" Bigi
"Hello! Hi Uncle! How are you?"
"I see...
STORIES
26-01-2020 by Marco C.
CLAUDIA'S TALES
22-08-2019 by Claudia Peli
23-01-2013 by Hilary Mazzon
CLAUDIA TALES
18-03-2011 by Claudia Peli
This morning I went to the office of Safaricom to register my sim card.
The clerk kindly said to me to sit down in the queue and Wait my turn.
I Looked around and I have not seen any row.
"Excuse me, What tail?"
"The That, out in the street."
"Ah ... though!"
25-02-2010 by Claudia Peli
Last week a friend from Italy came to visit me.
I have spoken to her so often during these years about the beauty of Kenya and...
