White-skinned Masai: how did the love of a Swiss business woman and a black African savage end (9 photos)

The love of evil is an immutable truth. But sometimes she takes such bizarre forms that you can hardly believe in the truth of such feelings. Although…





An ordinary prosperous wealthy resident of Switzerland realized that she was lost when she saw a black, slender warrior who looked like a statue carved from wood. And she threw all the blessings civilization, money, business, relatives to enjoy love African savage. What came out of this idea?



The girl went on a pre-wedding trip to Kenya in 1986 with her fiancé. But when I saw a representative of the local the Maasai Lketinga Leparmoriyo tribe, then lost her head. Corinna Hofmann broke off the engagement, left a successful business in Switzerland and plunged into a new life in the jungle.

And this is for a fragile woman accustomed to the benefits of civilization it was not easy: finding firewood, cooking on a fire, washing linen (the couple had a daughter) in ice water. But, as they say, feminine happiness - would be nice next.

But if Corinna was ready for everyday difficulties, then malaria and hepatitis, which she had to endure without medical help, not much. The woman sincerely loved Lketing, but did not understand tribal traditions - wild and sometimes cruel.

Thanks to her business acumen, the Swiss managed to establish ties with local, open a grocery store and even buy for the family car, which was an unheard of luxury.



True, I had to work tirelessly. Even during illness, due to which a tall (Corinna's height is 180 centimeters) woman lost weight to a critical 50 kilograms. The birth went with complications, and the woman knew for sure that she would not have any more children. But even this fact did not ruin her life.

African abuse



But if Corinna was ready to put up with everyday difficulties, then the beloved soon began to demonstrate oddities in behavior, who couldn't be bothered.

First, Lketinga proposed a guest marriage: the woman lives with himself in Switzerland, and comes to Kenya to visit and have fun. After the proud Maasai warrior voiced his desire to take a second wife. Say I want a lot children, and Corinna, even before the complications in childbirth, stated that more than two will not give birth.



After the appearance of daughter Napirai in 1989, everything seems to be settled down. But then the man began to demonstrate downright wild African jealousy, accusing his wife of having a crowd of lovers.

It got to the point that the man demanded to reread to him every a letter that a wife wrote to her mother. And then for reinsurance I went to someone else and asked to reread the text.

After another outburst of anger and inconsistent with it matchmaking for baby Napirai (the girl was a baby) Corinna went to Switzerland to show the baby to her grandmother. She is no longer in the tribe returned.



The woman got a job, rented an apartment. Life entered the normal course, but the Masai husband haunted her for a long time. Corinna corresponded with his mother and brother, who supported the departure. IN eventually addressed a farewell letter to the warrior, handed over the shop and the car, and agreed to find a new wife.

True, without an enterprising pale-faced wife, business quickly fell apart, and the car burned safely. The man even tried ask the former for financial assistance to close the debts. As a result, Corinne divorced according to European laws, although in Kenya everything is the same "listed" as the wife of Lketing.



In 1998, the book "White Masai" was published, which the woman wrote on the basis of personal experience and experiences, and instantly became a bestseller, translated into dozens of languages. Later her filmed.



Shot from the film "White from the Maasai tribe"

Subsequently, three more books were published. After that the woman ceased public activity, got married, leads a solitary image life, is fond of tourism and painting.



Corinna in onthese days

Do you believe in interracial or other marriages, when the spouses share some serious differences?