I spent Sh21 million on my house: Kenya’s exclusive Mansions with golf courses

Amos Ngonjo outside his home in Vipingo Ridge, one of Kenya's premier golf estate [Photo: Courtesy]

The glossy marketing brochures depict it all: Happy children riding bikes on paved walkways while their fathers tee off on neatly mowed golf courses; and a retired couple walking hand in hand on a tree-lined boulevard. That is life in Kenya's premier golf estates.

But that is only half the story. Those having a slice of life in these upper-class neighbourhoods have bought into lifestyles that is the dream of even the ordinary mortals.