“I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.” PeopleWellsMeanWould BeClassMiddleTerribleComfortableDollarsHumanitarianMiddle ClassJapanCowsI Have LearnedKenyaMassageNairobi Author:Binyavanga Wainaina
“You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.” PeopleMeanMightCarefulAidsBe CarefulKenyaTowels Author:Pat Robertson
“We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake.” FirstsCountryLyingSidesPoorOur CountryLakesNeighbourMournKenyaMinerals Author:Jakaya Kikwete
“Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people -- predominately women and children -- in need of emergency assistance.” PeopleNeedsYearsChildrenEyeActionChallengesMillionsLandWorstConsequenceCriticalAssistanceEmergenciesHornsDegradationKenyaDroughtEthiopiaSomaliaHorn Of Africa Author:Rajiv Shah
“I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.” ChildrenIdeasHardBeatsHorseGreat TimesKenyaGiraffeZebrasRhinosMasai Author:Mark Burnett
“I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.” BornAnimalKenyaOrphanageBorn Free Author:Rachel Hunter
“It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.” IdeasHumorousConfusionLionsHuntingColumnsKenyaObituary Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.” PeopleEasyCriticismArguingServantGovernorsSeniorHippieKenyaCivil Servants Author:Louis Leakey
“When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.” KnowsWantWantedFilmActorsFeltStudySuccessfulCollegeGet AwayKenyaGoing To College Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.” GrewGrew UpHustleKenyaBustleNairobiHustle And Bustle Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.” WaySleepCitiesKnowingNoiseEnjoyedHillsPlanesStayingLionsValleysReservesShowersElectricityElephantsLampsKenyaMothsMilky WayFlutteringRoamingEncampment Author:Cherie Lunghi
“If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.” IfsAmericaMovedKenya Author:Barack Obama
“Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.” FilmInfrastructureKenya Author:Ralph Fiennes
“Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.” LittlesSaidRightsMovementKingsRootsCivil RightsColonialismLutherCivil Rights MovementKenya Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.” LittlesKidsMotherBitsTermBrotherGoes OnCarefulImpressionHelpfulTraveledJournalSensoryKenyaLittle BrotherSafariMy Little BrotherStepfathers Author:Jennifer Egan
“In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.” WorldRememberChanceTreeBirdMonkeysKenyaOverhead Author:Joanna Lumley