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Kitchen Staff at Angama Mara

Staff in the kitchen at Angama Mara

Bring Africa into your home

African design is up there with some of the worlds most exciting and inspiring design trends.

Living overseas, I’ve become very nostalgic when it comes to African design and have bought elements of it into my own home. Here are a few items I love to bring your home on trend with Africa.

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Life is beautiful with Karien Belle’s Poetry Collection

‘I had the privilege of meeting Karien Belle, a South African born designer come global girl, a few years ago. I absolutely adore my Poetry scarf from her handmade, Poetry Collection, each a unique work of art with an inspiring message.’ – Kim Gray

“All good things are wild and free.”

Henry David Thoreau
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The Nomadic Kitchen presents: Spices and Spandex, the cookbook

Contemplating an adventure this year? Take a leaf out of Spices and Spandex, a cookbook for the adventurous, the free, the curious. Delve into the culinary adventures of two young men who cycled 20 000km from London to Cape Town, experiencing some of the richest and most diverse food cultures and recipes in the world.

Style & Design: Instagrammers we love

We’ve been escaping to the world of Instagram quite a bit these days, and the plethora of beautiful, African-inspired style and design is slowly swallowing us up! We’ve been fascinated; have a look what we mean…

10 Books Written by or About Karen Blixen

First published in 1937, Out of Africa recounts events of the seventeen years when Karen Blixen made her home in Kenya. Here is a list of books, all written about or by Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen.

Beverly Joubert’s Safari Essentials

‘I am passionate about creating an image that tells a complete story in one instant, one frame.’

Beverly Joubert lives and breathes Africa and its wild open places. When she’s out there, these are the 6 ‘must-haves’ she keeps by her side.