Why a Booktrail?
1980s: An amazing true story and the experience of someone who really tries to integrate with the African people and culture is a thrilling journey for anyone to read.
The White Masai
What you need to know before your trail
They say opposites attract but when Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, meet in Mombasa on Kenya’s glamorous coast. The odds are against then not to mention language and cultural barriers, yet they embark on a seemingly impossible love affair.
But this is not the Africa in the glossy travel magazines. This is the Africa of the Maasai tribe.
Travel Guide
Imagine taking yourself out of your comfortable western lifestyle and taking yourself off to a far and distant land where you would try to blend in and be part of a culture so different and strange to your own in every way.
That’s what Corinne did when she fell in love with a African man who lived in a the Masai tribe in Kenya.
Moving from Switzerland , this is essentially a cross-cultural love story, with a very big difference! If you think Shirley Valentine had it hard, it’s nothing what this woman had to deal with.
She has to live in a mud hut, and adopt all of the social mores, lifestyle habits and cultural beliefs of the Masai tribe. Naive and rather blind to the difficulties, this is a fascinating view and insight into a most remarkable and interesting people.
We found this interesting for more information –
The lifestyle and homeland of the Masai tribe – maasai-association
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