"White Masai" Corinne Hofmann talks about latest visit to Kenya. swissinfo

ch(Adapted from Italian by Isobel Leybold-Johnson) Hofmann was born on June 4, 1960 in Frauenfeld to a German father and French mother. She studied in canton Glarus and later opened a shop selling second-hand wedding dresses in Biel in canton Bern. Her life changed when in 1986 she took a holiday in Kenya with her fiancé. In a hotel in Mombasa she met and fell in love with a handsome Masai warrior named Lketinga, who was going traditional dances for tourists. She broke up with her fiancé, sold the shop and left for Kenya and married Lketinga in 1988. Napirai was born in 1989 but already the marriage was suffering from Lketinga?s jealousy, which was boosted by his drinking and addiction to qat, and Hofmann?s health problems from living in harsh conditions.