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The legend of Gor Mahia, the Luo wizard

Healer and clearvoyant, gives name to the best kenyan football team

13-09-2020 di Freddie del Curatolo

TAGS: eroi kenyastregoni kenyaleggende kenya

Modern Kenya still lives on legends and revered characters from the past, including sorcerers, traditional healers and seers.
One of the most important and well-known was called Gor Mahia and, although he lived in the nineteenth century, his name is...

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In the Luo dialect it means "the sunken village", the "Simi Nyaima" is a wonderful little volcanic lake in the Karachuonyo area of western Kenya, not far

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A unique natural monument dominating an enchanting landscape, in an area little frequented by mass tourism in Kenya, but which is becoming a place of .....

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Ruma National Park is located in western Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria in one of Kenya's most productive and populous regions, and is one of the country's most fascinating but lesser known parks.

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Many famous labels of spirits and distillates in the world hide, behind their sometimes curious names, sometimes resounding, curious legends or interesting implications related to their founders or places of production.
This is the case of Kenya's national beer, now...

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East coast of Africa. 
The boundaries of that linguistic and cultural unity known as Swahili culture range from Mogadishu in the north to Cape Delgado in Mozambique. 
A long coastline shared by a single language: the kiswahili, a mixture of...

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