Over 20,000 visitors are expected to throng the streets of Lamu town for the 2025 Lamu Cultural Festival set for Thursday ...

Lamu's 23rd Cultural Festival is set! Join us Nov 20-22, 2025, for the best of Swahili culture, donkey races, and amazing food!

This year’s annual Lamu Cultural Festival lived up to its billing, with revellers turning up in their thousands to sample the best of the archipelago’s culture and dishes. The final day of the event ...

Not far from the coast of Kenya in the iridescent Indian Ocean lies an island called Lamu, very much the same as it was a thousand years ago. Since time out of mind, Lamu has been a bustling entrépot ...

Lamu Old Town is a Unesco World Heritage site that is considered to be a living museum of Swahili culture and architecture. Photo Credit: javarman/Shutterstock.com Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya, ...

With its glorious old town, "spectacular" beaches and "laid-back" atmosphere, the Kenyan island of Lamu is one of the world's most bewitching places. I first visited as a "scruffy backpacker" in 1992, ...

Outcry over the replacement of local artefacts with Omani historical and cultural exhibits in Lamu museum.[Maarufu Mohamed/Standard] The removal of artefacts belonging to Lamu’s native communities ...

This year’s Maulid Festival, which celebrates the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, brought a significant rise in visitor arrivals to Lamu. This year’s Maulid Festival, which celebrates the birthday ...

LOUNGING ON CUSHIONS in the prow of a sturdy wooden dhow as it glides in total silence through the mangrove-edged creeks opposite the island of Lamu, the spoilt Western visitor, freed from two years ...

Kenya’s Environment and Land Court has upheld a 2019 ruling that revoked the environmental license for the proposed ...