The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure

BOOK CLUB January 2025 Selection

 

The White Masai: My Exotic Tale of Love and Adventure by Corinne Hofmann is an autobiographical novel in which the author, a young woman from Switzerland travelling in Africa, falls in love with a Masai warrior. They get married and have a child, and she lives with the tribe for several years until the marriage breaks down and she returns to Europe.

The book is described asĀ  “a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology. “