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Stories Set in Kenya
Blixen's farm, Nairobi half-lives, Rift Valley flights and lions that inspired animation — Kenya films beautifully and writes honestly. Start with these ten, then open the country on StoryTerra's map.
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Browse 51 books, 62 movies, 1 TV show and 10 games set in Kenya.
Inception
Cobb a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception" the…
Out of Africa
Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen…
Eye in the Sky
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American…
The Constant Gardener
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why thrusting himself…
Sense8
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people…
The Ghost and the Darkness
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated…
Cutting for Stone
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful…
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of…
Tolo Tolo
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However after one month the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts…
Nowhere in Africa
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina to join her husband Walter on a farm in Kenya. At first Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances bringing with her a set of china…
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