In the footsteps of Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen Museums Curatorial Assistant Rosemary Agutu poses in front of Baroness Karen Blixen photos during the 25th Anniversary of the museums at Karen on November 2, 2010. Photo/LIZ MUTHONI

If Karen Blixen could see the suburb named after her today, she’d be proud.

Although she left Kenya broke, dejected and terribly homesick, Karen, the suburb named after her, is Nairobi’s most prestigious neighbourhood today, hosting diplomats, powerful businesspeople, government ministers, expatriates and most of Kenya’s privileged white and black population.