Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

The Kenyan night is like a busy shipping lane, but silent

The insects are quiet. What are they waiting for?

issue 21 November 2015

Night falls like a fire curtain at seven and I go to bed not long afterwards, serenaded by bullfrogs after rain. Having risen long before dawn, ranchers tend to sleep early, following a thin gruel of a supper. In upcountry Kenya it used to be that pyjamas and dressing-gowns were permissible for even quite posh dinners.

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