Msafiri Issue 176 - Dec 2022 - Jan 2023

Welcome to the latest issue of our award-winning magazine. What an exciting year this has been! First, we bring you good news. For the first time ever, msafiri won the award for Africa’s Leading Inflight Magazine at the World Travel Awards 2022! Thank you to all our readers who have made this magazine what it is. Additionally, Kenya Airways scooped Africa’s Leading Airline, Africa’s Leading Airline – Business Class and Africa’s Leading Airline Brand. Receiving these top accolades year on year is a remarkable success for the KQ team. We sincerely thank you, our customers, for getting us to the top. Our approach is designed to provide you with a highly personalised and bespoke service tailored to your individual preferences – and all with an African touch. We couldn’t have…

habari One of the finalists in the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, a lioness in Kenya’s Olare Motorogi Conservancy begrudgingly smiles for the camera. “I spent a whole morning with this lion pride,” says photographer Alison Buttigieg. “One of the lionesses made some funny facial expressions after yawning; luckily for me she looked straight into the camera for a moment and I caught this fake smile.” Turn to page 46 for more wildlife images guaranteed to make you laugh……

MSAFIRI 170 | DEC-JAN Celebrating a memorable 12 months for Africa’s sporting heroes, our special feature showcased homegrown talent across a wide range of sports, from marathons to football, martial arts to swimming – not to mention highlighting the Africans who took to the podium no fewer than 37 times at the Tokyo Olympics. ELIUD KIPCHOGE A living legend and the greatest marathoner of all time, Eliud Kipchoge proved his mettle after becoming only the third man in history to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals over the 42km distance. The Association of National Olympic Committees also named Kipchoge as best male athlete at the Games. Turn to page 52 to find out about our exclusive training programme with Kipchoge. MSAFIRI 171 | FEB-MAR In a packed issue, msafiri turned the…

BIKO’S TRAVELS if we are being honest with ourselves, we will admit that we go to New York City because we think we might see Morgan Freeman seated at the back of a passing Escalade. Or Toni Braxton holding the hem of her dress while jumping over the infamous New York rats in Manhattan. At least that’s some of the reasons I have gone to New York twice. I got an Airbnb in Lefferts Avenue in Brooklyn. The first thing you have to do in New York is live as far from Manhattan as you can. Unless you have a trust fund or are holding a trust fund kid ransom. Brooklyn is everything you see on TV – loud and dirty, but very charming. Like that very entertaining and irresistible…

What do you think of when you hear the name Mandela? Anyone born before 1989 might place their first memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela as one of several black and white images of the younger Mandela that featured in school textbooks, newspapers and magazines, or were shown on television in black and white when broadcasts were in full colour. They might know the lyrics and tune of songs like Hugh Masekela’s Bring back Nelson Mandela, San Fan Thomas’ Zimo to Nelson Mandela or Kenyan singer Sam Muthee’s Release Mandela. They are likely to remember the day when his impending release, after serving 27 years in prison, was celebrated. I remember watching the live broadcast of Nelson and Winnie Mandela walking out of Victor Verster Prison, surprised that he didn’t resemble…

it’s that time of the year. Again. Many a fumbling father will make the same old New Year’s resolutions and, before they’ve climbed down from that high of making these promises, they will, in one fell swoop, end up breaking more commandments than Moses. Fam, I’ve been there for the past nth years. Which why this year I want to do things differently. Stay with me, and I’ll show you how to make foolproof New Year’s resolutions. 01 First, make the quintessential January-joiner resolution, albeit with a few smart tweaks. This time round, when you make a resolution that in 2023 you will join the gym, make it clear to your loved ones that it doesn’t mean you will join in January. The year is still young. In this part…