Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya’s glamorous coast.Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair. Here are some of the major interesting facts from the book.
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1. In 1986, Hofmann and her boyfriend Marco made a trip to Kenya. There, she met a Samburu warrior named Lketinga Leparmorijo and instantly found him irresistible.
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2.She left Marco, went back to Switzerland to sell her possessions, and, in 1987, returned to Kenya, determined to find Lketinga, which she eventually did.
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3.The couple moved in together and married.
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4. They even had a lovely daughter
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5.The Samburu are a pastoralist people related to the Maasai, and live in small villages in an arid area of central Kenya.
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6.Hofmann moved into her mother-in-law’s manyatta (compound) and learned to live as a Samburu woman, fetching wood and water.
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7.She opened a small shop in the village, to sell basic goods.
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8. Hofmann suffered several hardships, including diseases (mainly malaria) and marital problems.
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9.Increasingly paranoid jealousy from her husband, possibly a side effect of his addiction to the drug khat (miraa), severely damaged her relationship.
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10. In 1990 she decided to return to Switzerland for good, taking her daughter with her.
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11. Later on, she wrote a book about her experiences. The book, titled Die weisse Massai, went on to become a phenomenal success.
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12. She returned to visit her Samburu family for the first time in 2004. Another visit followed, this time in a company of the daughter she has had with Lketinga. The reunion is described in Afrika, meine Passion.
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13. And her daughter is all grown up now
