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Some with "a pizza", others offering an annual “consultancy and advertising” license or computer

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There are moments in Africa when the border is not a line on a map, but a premonition. A...

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

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If Italian culture in Nairobi were a symphony, last night in the garden of the Enoteca del Muthaiga...

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They call it 'Tarzan's Paradise'.
The azure...

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Among the many paradoxes of the African continent, in addition to often being considered

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Fuel prices are falling. Not by much, but they are falling. In Kenya, good news always comes in

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Rwanda and Ethiopia got off to a flying start. New airports, runways as long as election promises, futuristic...

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Every time I pass through Nanyuki, I get the feeling that this invisible line isn't so much there to divide the...

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Ten days in Nairobi may seem like a short time.
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For eighteen years, the real strength of malindikenya.net has not been a benevolent algorithm...

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2025 exceeded all expectations for the sale of Italian coffee pods throughout Kenya, with a figure that speaks...

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In the Shakahola forest, silence was never really silence. It was hunger, waiting...

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Six dead lions. Thirty-four vultures lying on the ground like dry leaves. All killed without...

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From today – or rather, from this January – foreign doctors are no longer welcome. Or...

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Today, ten years after David Bowie's death, I began to suspect, and it's not even one...

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It only happens in Kenya. Or at least, it happens better in Kenya than...

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Two lionesses outside the park, surrounded by houses, roads, and construction sites. This...

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At the end of 2025, the Kenyan shilling is like one of those African characters who greet you with a big smile...

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The Italian language courses organized by our embassy's cultural office will resume i...

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Last Monday, Kenya officially reopened its schools and, as every year, the start of the school year...

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In Kenya, medicine has never been just a matter of white coats, pills, and medical...

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There are images that speak louder than a thousand words.
Sun-dried...

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A smile in a suit and tie, an impeccable moustache, the sly air of someone who seems distracted by...

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In 2026, Malindi's Wednesday beach party at the Olimpia Club will once again be one of...

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There are buildings that collapse as if they were tired....

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Malindikenya.net has been around since 2008. Put like that, it sounds like a date, a line on Wikipedia...

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Wednesday, January 7, will be a very special day at the Malaika Lounge Restaurant in...

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Once again this year, thousands of tourists flocked to Kenya during the...

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In Amboseli today, the air is lighter and heavier at the same...

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The “Incontritaliani” events created by malindikenya.net and co-organized by the Italian Cultural...

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And so 2026, in Kenya, is announced as follows: with a list of construction sites, promises, kilometers,...

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We can say it, come on.
It was a year...

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At the end of 2025, Kenya looks toward 2026 with half-closed eyes, like someone who wakes up...

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Another year has passed, dear Italians in Kenya, outside Kenya and with Kenya in your...

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There were moments of apprehension on Monday evening at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport...

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This event is not just a beach party, nor is it just a New Year's Eve celebration, but something...

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It is not only the figures from recent years that speak for themselves, nor solely the incredible rise

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At the end of every year, while Europe stays indoors discussing traffic, obligatory dinners and New Year's...

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A New Year's Eve party in true Italian style at Malaika Malindi, the elegant two-level...

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A spectacular New Year's Eve in Malindi, with the Olimpia Club beach party starting at 10 p.m., featuring...

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Are you in Malindi and the surrounding area and want to celebrate the New Year in a different, ...

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For many years, the tradition of large New Year's Eve fireworks in Malindi, started by Bobby Cellini at...

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Once again this year, as is tradition, Rosada in Malindi is preparing for its New Year's Eve dinner before...

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Another Monday beach party for the new season, featuring the historic event that sees the iconic...

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From tomorrow, the Kenyan coast in particular will reach historic records in attendance, with its top...

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There is a word that is not often used in Kenya, because it usually comes too late, when the...

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Long-time readers know that malindikenya.net also has a social mission. You cannot live in this country...

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On Saturdays in Watamu, the number one weekly party on the Kenyan coast takes...

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In the heart of the highlands of Vihiga County, in north-western Kenya, the latest...

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It was the success of the season among our activities, and continues to be so, because...

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Christmas Day in Malindi is celebrated on the sand and by the pool at Lost, in the unique...

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A truly special Christmas Eve beach party in Malindi, featuring a midnight raffle with...

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North of Malindi, where the Indian Ocean meets the equator and Italian space history has already left...

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I left home with the intention of giving a little Christmas present to those who could really get...

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Dear African Father Christmas, an eleven-year-old boy named Kimani, living in a mud...

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Something new is happening in Watamu. And it's not a resort, nor a beach club, nor yet another...

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It will be a good Christmas.
It is not so much to remember Jesus, who is worshipped here distractedly but...

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There comes a day in the life of every old lover of Africa when they finally realise...

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You get there by turning off Mombasa Road, leaving behind the nervous, sickening traffic of Nairobi 

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With the arrival of the high tourist season, traffic on Kenyan roads increases significantly: more hire...

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In this episode of the irregular and unexpected podcast series ‘L'Africa non esiste’ (Africa does not...

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Once again this season, the Rosada Beach Party on Silversand Beach in Malindi confirms its...

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I AM NOT YET A WOMAN...

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It's Thursday again, and for Malindi, a tourist and residential town entering its peak season, Thursday...

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Some see it as a sign of the times, others as a sudden shock, but Carrefour's arrival in...

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Fourteen years have passed since that definitive ban that was supposed to mark the end of a...

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A real music competition to get young and old alike dancing and having fun on the shores of the...

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"I would like to come and live and work in Kenya, maybe even as an au pair, for example...

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After fifteen weeks and as many episodes, the first season of the PODCAST series ‘La...

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There is a word in Kenya that should be associated with celebration, but too often...

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The land of Kakamega has never been silent.
The forest...

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From 23 December, while in Malindi the morning air already smells of Christmas and warm sand, Real...

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This has been a year of heavy losses for Kenyan literature....

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In a country where it sometimes seems easier to cut down a baobab tree than to cut...

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Today is a national holiday in Kenya. It is Jamhuri Day.
It was...

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President William Ruto has given the green light to the construction of new luxury hotels in Tsavo...

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This week, Wednesdays at the Olimpia Club in Malindi are turning ‘red’, like the sunset on the...

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There are nights in Nairobi when the wind seems to carry with it an ancient mourning, a sigh that comes...

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For a week now, Al Jazeera has been broadcasting a Kenya that many would prefer to leave out...

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As every week, and every Tuesday for the past 14 weeks, here is an episode of the...

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Some roads don't even know where they end up...

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The eTA (Electronic Travel Authorisation) as we have repeatedly written, as of 1 January...

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The new edition of the photographic exhibition ‘Africa – Faces, Gazes and Hopes of a People’ by...

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Another episode of the ROTOPODCAST ‘Africa does not exist’, which once again features the...

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Kenya has signed a five-year, $2.5 billion agreement with the United States to strengthen...

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A world of Italian quality, sweetness and goodness to celebrate Christmas and the end-of-year festivities...

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There is an Africa that does not wait for rescue from above, but buys its own future gigabit by...

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In Kenya, which runs like a crazy electric guitar, between dancehall and trap beats bouncing off...

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They say that an elephant never forgets – and apparently, it can also learn to adapt to...

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Thursday at Lost Beach is an evening not to be missed, a regular and unmissable event in Malindi, not...

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This Wednesday at the Olimpia Club in Malindi, it's not just the classic beach party, a regular...

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The Malaika Lounge Restaurant in Malindi is preparing in the best possible way for the new high...

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On 19 May 1977, someone decided that the novel of legal hunting in Kenya had killed off too...

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Kenya has entered the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World ...

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A plate of gnocchi for leopards and rhinos, with the metropolis in the background... never before had an...

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The middle wind, the so-called 'Tanga Mbili', is coming again this year, heralding summer...

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C’è sempre un’alba in Kenya.
Alcune sanno di mare, altre di polvere rossa, altre...

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The festive season is approaching and the new season promises to be special. In

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The beauty of Kenya is that it is a country of young people.
This is probably...

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Kilifi County continues to grapple with a painful reality: teenage pregnancies remain one of the...

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There is a Kenya that everyone sees, with sunsets that look like something out of a tourist brochure and...

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The holidays are approaching, and even in Kenya it's time for Christmas markets...

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It has become a regular and unmissable event in Malindi: Lost Beach Thursday is an evening not...

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The prestigious Serena Hotel in Nairobi is organising an evening of fine Italian cuisine to mark Italian Cuisine...

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Not just beach parties, on Wednesdays during the new season at the Olimpia Club in Malindi there is always...

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Dear Italian friends who are about to leave (and also those who were “left like suitcases on the street” last...

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More and more readers are also becoming listeners, thanks to the various branches and offerings of...

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Kenya embraces the work of one of Italy's most important conceptual artists and is exhibiting it...

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A new tourist season in Kenya is just around the corner. I, on the other hand, am on the verge of...

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Gianfranco Morino, a surgeon known for being the driving force behind the Ruaraka Neema Hospital in...

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To celebrate the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, in Nairobi, Italy and the Kenyan artists...

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What if the next war, because unfortunately as long as humans exist, wars will exist, were not...

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There was a time when, looking out over Malindi beach, you might find not only the ocean, geckos...

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Minister Lollobrigida noticed it because those non-Italian products with evocative Italian names – first...

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If everything goes as promised on Wednesday in Nairobi, in a few years Kenya should cease to be a...

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As of today, the Honorary Consulate in Malindi is moving to a new...

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The Italian Cuisine Week in the World was inaugurated in grand style in...

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This week's “Rotopodcast” on the Spotify and YouTube channels of Italians in Kenya...

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Seven years ago, on 20 November 2018, something changed forever for Italians who visited or...

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The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has seven days to explain the increase in national park...

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The Olimpia Club kicks off the high season with music and...

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There is a part of Kenya where malaria needs no introduction. No need for Google, no need...

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Malaria, that old acquaintance of the tropics which ruins nights on the Kenyan coast more than the...

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