Check this out, so this pretty blonde beat her to it! (pics at the link)
The White Masai
July 22, 2006
Just how much comfort and modernity would you give up for love?
Corinne Hofmann spent four years living in the arid bush of northern Kenya as wife to a Samburu warrior named Lketinga.
She lived in a mud hut, had a baby, got sick, spent all her money, argued with her husband and then returned to Switzerland with her daughter to write a book about it.
It became a bestseller in Europe and has now been published in 16 languages. She has also written two sequels, one about raising her daughter in Switzerland, another about returning to visit the Kenyan village of Barsaloi, where her ex-husband has now remarried (several times).
All in all, Hofmann has done well out of her spur-of-the-moment decision, while on holiday in Mombasa, to dump her then boyfriend and follow a man she didn’t know and couldn’t talk to (he spoke only Masai, she didn’t know English or Masai).
Is it impolite to wonder what the Samburu got out of her adventure? I mean, what’s the difference between her mining of experience and the older, more recognised forms of colonial plunder?
Good gosh...not the life for me, that is for sure.
My first thought was that this woman wants to write a book about it and I read through the comments and I find your comment!
