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Sixteen kilometers from Nairobi City Centre, accessible through both Ngong and Langata roads, stands a house of monumental proportions. Built in 1910, the three bed roomed house is today a museum courtesy of the Danish and Kenyan governments as its original owner, highly acclaimed Danish author Karen Blixen, made it her home from 1914 to 1931.
The house and grounds were presented to Kenya as an Uhuru gift by the Danish government. To refresh your mind, the movie Out of Africa is based on her passionate writings about her life in Kenya, British East Africa then. The up-market Karen suburb is also named after her as it was part of her expansive six thousand acres coffee farm. Blixen's repeated attempts to grow coffee in the area were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture.
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