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Kuki Gallmann: Living the African Dream
By Tom Kertes

Not too many people live a life that is fascinating enough to have an Academy-Award winning film based on it. But, Kuki Gallmann, a person clearly driven to gain a genuinely meaningful life, is one of those rare people.

“Kim Basinger, (who won the Best Actress Oscar for the role) was good with the script she had,” says Gallmann, whose amazing story is told in the film I Dream of Africa.

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“But the script wasn’t too good.”

The film was based on Gallmann’s autobiography, now translated into over 20 languages. “The film is a film,” she says. “But the book was the real story.”

And, what a story it was! Gallmann, who used to dream about Africa ever since she was a little girl and confesses to having read “every available book about it”, first visited the continent as a teenager when she traveled to the Sahara Desert with her father.

She visited Africa again in 1970 and after having fallen deeply in love with the land sh Kuki Gallmann Interview - Kuki Gallmann Shot in Kenya RAPO