Nairobi Animal Orphanage

This guide to the Nairobi Animal Orphanage opens with an odd bit of arithmetic: why did Karen Blixen's six-thousand-acre coffee farm, the plantation that gave this Nairobi suburb its name, devote only a tenth of that land to coffee. It follows the collapse of that farm through drought and falling prices in the Great Depression, Blixen's 1931 departure for Denmark, and the death that same year of her partner Denys Finch Hatton, the big-game hunter and safari guide buried nearby in the Ngong Hills. From that era of lions and buffalo hunted as trophies, the guide turns to what now stands a short drive from the old farm gate. Listen for how the ledger on this land changed after independence.