Kenya’s spectacular return to form

Thirty years after Out of Africa, Kenya has lost none of its box-office appeal

A picnic at the outcrop near Angama Mara that was immortalised in Out of Africa (Stevie Mann)

Sometimes I'm clever. More often, I'm just lucky. I'm sprawled in a hammock on the edge of the Indian Ocean. The breeze smells of dust and frangipani, and in the wet mid-morning heat, apathetic wavelets are flopping half-heartedly onto an utterly deserted beach. It's a holiday-brochure tropical fantasy, and when Dixon the waiter arrives with my iced drink, I ask him why I'm the only person here. He rolls his eyes. "A lot has happened in Kenya," he replies.

That's an understatement. The chronicle of the country's recent woes reads like a list of biblical plagues. In the past decade, it has hit the headlines for episodes of tribal violence, drought and terrorism. The outbreak of ebola in West Africa caused thousands to holiday elsewhere, even though Kenya was further from the disease than London is from Moscow.

The heaviest blow came last year, when government advisories in the UK

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