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Posted on 02/19/2026 5:58:35 PM PST by algore
Corinne Hofmann described her first sighting as decidedly unexpected. In 1986, while on Holiday at the Kenyan coast, she and her boyfriend, Marco, had just gotten into an argument because he had almost gotten them caught for trying to buy hashish.
They had also been waiting for what felt like ages to catch the ferry. Hundreds of people, along with wares and animals, were crammed between lines of waiting vehicles to get on to the ferry.
When finally on board, it was Marco, ironically, who pointed out Corinne’s future husband. She likened it to being struck by lightning. He was more beautiful than anyone she’d ever seen.
He hardly had any clothes on, save for a loincloth and lots of jewellery. His hair was also knotted in red braids. Corinne noted that he had soft features but with significant masculinity.
They encountered each other briefly again later that day, and Corinne developed a fixation with the young Masai. When he was arrested on the beach for defending himself, she was devastated and immediately decided to find out where he was held.
She and her friend Edy went from jail to jail, sometimes offering bribes to get information on new inmates, until they finally found Lketinga. He was stripped of his jewellery and was in bad shape, further distressing Corinne.
She went back to the hotel where she and Marco are staying. What followed was a tough conversation about why she was so fixated on the Masai man.
Marco recognised her determination and questioned their future together. This led Corinne to admit that she did have plans to perhaps move to Kenya permanently. Planning a New Life in Kenya
Corinne returned to Switzerland and split with Marco. She found a new apartment and began planning a permanent relocation to Kenya.
Her Kenyan friend, Priscilla, also sent her a letter informing her that Lketinga had been released from jail. At this, she wrote him a letter, informing him that she would be returning to the country alone in a few months.
She arrived in Mombasa in July 1987, excited because of the potential reunion with Lketinga. She also returned with her brother, Eric, and his partner. Eric was very sceptical of the relationship upon seeing Lketinga, but Corinne was confident.
Unfortunately, it was not what she envisaged. The language barrier complicated the relationship, leading to a build-up of tension.
Emotional and Cultural Differences
During a slow dance at the disco, emotions were stirred, but the language and cultural gaps remained. Corinne narrated that she felt torn between having a deep desire for Lketinga and doubt that he felt the same way about her.
Despite not yet being in the actual bush, Corinne already notices the differences in fetching water and preparing food. These were issues she did not have to think about in the same manner back in Switzerland.
On a night walk with Lketinga, the heat, smells, and atmosphere are a sharp contrast with her life in Switzerland. She felt more attached to Lketinga but was still grappling with the reality of different worlds.
Corinne felt a desire for intimacy with Lketinga but was constrained by local gender separations. She also noted unsettling aspects of her new love interest, such as his fondness for miraa, an energy-boosting plant used recreationally by locals.
At the time, she also had to deal with visa issues, so she went to Nairobi to file for a visa extension. When she came back, she had learned that he had left for Maralal because he felt betrayed by the Masai community in Mombasa.
She decided to go to Samburu Maralal to seek his family. She got assistance from Tom, a warrior friend of Lketinga’s, to hire a vehicle and went to Barsaloi to meet his mother.
Corinne soon fell pregnant but had to navigate the challenges of carrying a child in the bush. Dangers posed by harsh terrain, flooding, and recurring malaria were ever-present. She eventually gave birth to a girl in 1989 at the Bush Hospital in Wamba.
Over the following months, Corinne was frequently sick despite having to manage their shop in Maralal. She also had to travel to Nairobi to sort vehicle issues, all the while coping with growing resentment from her husband, Lketinga.
Her boldness and practical knowledge meant she had been handling most of the finances. Though this emasculated her husband.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinne_Hofmann
Can’t believe there are boys shootin’ hoops in the background.
Who the hell is Corrine Hoffman and why is this important?
Here is the Grok executive summary:
In 1986, Swiss boutique owner Corinne Hofmann spotted a strikingly handsome Samburu warrior named Lketinga on a Kenyan ferry during a vacation with her boyfriend Marco, instantly becoming obsessed with his exotic appearance and minimal clothing. After dumping Marco, selling her possessions, and returning alone to Kenya, she tracked him down, married him despite massive language and cultural barriers, moved into his remote bush village in Barsaloi, ran a small shop, endured malaria, harsh living conditions in a cow-dung hut, and gave birth to their daughter in 1989. Her Western practicality and control over finances increasingly emasculated Lketinga, fueling his growing paranoia, jealousy (possibly worsened by miraa use), and resentment, turning the romantic fantasy into a grueling reality that forced her to flee back to Switzerland with their child in 1990 for health and sanity reasons—proving that lust-driven idealism and cultural romanticization rarely survive contact with the actual grind of incompatible worlds.
I own a couple of Maasai lion killing spears.
“Who the hell is Corrine Hoffman and why is this important?”
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Nobody and it isn’t.
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“””””Following a trip to Switzerland with her daughter and back, Corinne was inspired to open a disco in the village that would cater to the village residents and construction workers building a nearby school.”””””
She really went native.
Looks like a match made in heaven. The luckiest character in this tale is Marco, who was shed of this loony woman.
“Who the hell is Corrine Hoffman and why is this important?”
I want to believe this a Public service announcement warning young women about making choices based on DEI and guilt
I am at a restaurant with family and that just made me laugh out loud, here.
Fetish fan fiction?
She could’ve just gone to Memphis
Or East St Louis.
I don’t know. I gave up about a third of the way through when I couldn’t find a reason to keep going
So...unattractive, naive AWFL gets jungle fever at the sight of a well filled loin cloth and goes native, and it didn’t work out. What a shock. She could have gone to Baltimore instead and at least wouldn’t have had to carry water.
Has that daughter written a book about her growing up experience yet? She’s almost 40. Would have had time to observe and think about the circumstances of her birth.
It’s a cautionary tale. Stupid white woman goes to Kenya, gets the instant hots for some guy she can’t even talk to, spawns future president of the United States.
This is part of the AWFUL’s Children’s book series
AWFULs Abroad!
AWFULs Get Jungle Fever
AWFULs Save Africa!
I was going to stop, but I had a morbid curiosity to see if the story turned out as I imagined it would
And I was 100% correct!
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