The four-million-copy international bestseller of the incredible love story between a European woman and an African warrior
The White Masai combines adventure and the pursuit of passion in a page-turning story of two star-crossed lovers from vastly different backgrounds. Corinne, a European entrepreneur, meets Lketinga, a Samburu warrior, while on vacation in Mombasa on Kenya's glamorous coast.Despite language and cultural barriers, they embark on an impossible love affair. Corinne uproots her life to move to Africa—not the romantic Africa of popular culture, but the Africa of the Masai, in the middle of the isolated bush, where five-foot-tall huts made from cow dung serve as homes. Undaunted by wild animals, hunger, and bouts with tropical diseases, she tries to forge a life with Lketinga. But slowly the dream starts to crumble when she can no longer ignore the chasm between their two vastly different cultures.
A story that taps into our universal belief in the power of love, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a compulsively good read.

The White Masai

Hofmann, Corinne

Parenting & Relationships

Amistad

The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.

Corinne Hofmann falls in love with a Masai warrior while on holiday with her boyfriend in Kenya. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles, she moves into a tiny shack with him and his mother in his village, and spends four years in Kenya. Slowly but surely the dream starts to crumble until she flees back home with her baby daughter born out of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Arcadia Books

Following the phenomenal success of her bestselling memoirs, Corinne Hofmann returns to her beloved Africa after many years.

Reunion in Barsaloi

Arcadia Books Ltd

After enthralling readers around the world with her incredible story of falling in love with and marrying the Masai warrior Lketinga-and living with his family and their daughter in Kenya-Corinne Hoffmann recounts her return to Switzerland and the difficulties she faced. This frank and revealing memoir details how she built a new life for herself and her daughter while overcoming all obstacles with the same courage and optimism she employed in her life in the Kenyan outback. Once again, Hoffmann proves herself to be an acute observer and an effective storyteller, and her astonishing and compelling tale will captivate fans new and old.

Back from Africa

After the phenomenal success of The White Masai and Reunion In Barsaloi, Bliss Books is delighted to publish their equally astonishing.

In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann, author of the global bestseller The White Masai, delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places. Joined by her half-Kenyan daughter, Napirai, and traveling Kenya together for the first time, they discover Napirai's roots and finally meet her father and half-siblings. Hofmann then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people. "Narrated with genuine affection for all things African."--Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2014

Africa, My Passion

Lorsque, à 27 ans, Corinne Hofmann foule le sol de Mombassa, elle ne sait pas encore que sa vie va prendre un tournant décisif. Venue au Kenya pour les vacances, il suffit du regard perçant d'un guerrier massaï, Lketinga, pour ravir la jeune femme à son amant, à sa culture et à sa vie commerçante de Biel, en Suisse. En quelques mois, Corinne Hofmann lâche les amarres de l'Europe et s'installe au cœur de la brousse aux côtés de son amour africain. Est-elle vraiment prête à y tenir le rôle d'une épouse modèle en pays massaï ? "'La Massaï blanche', best-seller mondial, vous emporte tel un torrent en pleine brousse africaine." Francine Brunschwig - "La Tribune de Genève"

La Massaï blanche

Memoirs

Pocket

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The White Masai

The White Masai

The White Masai

Reunion in Barsaloi

Reunion in Barsaloi

Back from Africa

Back from Africa

Back from Africa

Africa, My Passion

La Massaï blanche