She Left Everything for Love — But Love Wasn’t Enough

In 1986, Swiss businesswoman Corinne Hofmann took a trip to Kenya that would change her life forever.
There, near Lake Turkana, she met Lketinga, a proud Samburu warrior — tall, striking, dressed in red beads and carrying a spear beneath the blazing African sun.
What began as fascination turned into obsession.

Corinne sold her boutique, left her fiancé, and traded Switzerland’s comfort for a mud hut in the Kenyan bush — all for love.
But the dream soon cracked under reality.
Life in the wild meant fetching water from rivers, cooking over open fires, surviving heat, hunger, and jealousy.
The beauty that first enchanted her became the same force that tested her to the core.
When their daughter was born, joy met struggle.

Lketinga’s temper grew, trust faded, and Corinne realized that even the deepest love can be lost in translation.
After four years, she made an impossible choice — she fled with her child, leaving behind the man she once thought she’d die for.
Her story became The White Masai — a best-selling book and film — a tale of love, courage, and heartbreak between two worlds.
Sometimes love can cross oceans…
But not always bridge them.