Out of Africa-Memorias de Africa-visit to Karen Blixen house

Dear readers

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the Karen Blix Museum, from Out of Africa film #Memorias de Africa# see some story below...
It is not far from Nairobi city centre... I was there in the morning as I had to be back to continue interpreting at the afternoon. The World Social Forum is finished but there were still some meetings by the International Council to decide about the next venue for the forum and to reflect the output of this forum.


I enjoyed so much to had the opportunity to visit the Museum, which is in fact the house where she was living. Photographs in the house are not permitted,
Everything has been maintained as in the old times...
see more info below



Some information about Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Blixen moved to Africa in 1914. At the foot of Ngong hills, she established herself as a farmer. After her departure in 1931, the suburbs retained the commemorative home of Karen.

At independence, the Danish government donated the house and the surrounding land to Kenya. The house was restored by the Danish government and was used during the filming of 'Out of Africa'. The museum was opened to the public in 1986.

The house built in 1910 has a red tile roof and mellow wood paneling in the rooms. When Baroness Karen Blixen bought the property in 1917, it had 6,000 acres of land. Only 600 acres were developed for growing coffee; the rest was retained under natural forest...

In the evening we went into town with some Kenyan interpreters... it was an area full of pubs and restaurants,,, but not everything was colourful as we saw a sad incident with some teenagers and we left with a sad feeling of being not able to help in the situation. We were adviced by the taxi driver, ( who is one of the local interpreters to leave the area) as it was not safe to be around at this time of the night...
Street violence in Kenya is a fact...

After being at the World Social forum, where some locals were excluded from participating ( because of the high entrance fee) I realised that the story continues... more to comment on this in the next blogs