Not far from the coast of Kenya in the iridescent Indian Ocean lies an island called Lamu, very much the same as it was a thousand years ago. Since time out of mind, Lamu has been a bustling entrépot ...

Ali gently steered the dhow out of the small jetty and into a small lagoon for what he had promised to be a 'wonderful sundowner'. The team of local and international journalists who were inspecting ...

Outcry over the replacement of local artefacts with Omani historical and cultural exhibits in Lamu museum.[Maarufu Mohamed/Standard] The removal of artefacts belonging to Lamu’s native communities ...

Back in the 1950s, a young British officer known as the district commissioner was ensconced in a charming seafront mansion from which he lorded it over the locals of Lamu, an island off the ...

Lamu Old Town is a Unesco World Heritage site that is considered to be a living museum of Swahili culture and architecture. Photo Credit: javarman/Shutterstock.com Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya, ...