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How paradise got lost for dancing moran and missing Belgian lover

Emmanuel Lesoipa and Dysseleer.

For a time he was the village sensation. He was at the centre of an evolving love story that captured the imagination of his fellow villagers in Lonkoben village, some 17 kilometres from Maralal Town, and Manuel Lesoipa loved it.

But ironically Lesoipa died fighting the woman he once loved and had vowed to love to death.

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