I Dreamed of Africa is a memoir by Italian

Italy

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 writer Kuki Gallmann

Kuki Gallmann

Kuki Gallmann is an Italian writer and poet. Born in Treviso, Veneto, she moved to Kenya in 1972 with her husband and son and is now a Kenyan citizen. She wrote several books about her life in Africa, all of them in English; the best known is I Dreamed of Africa. A movie adaptation of the book,...

. The book focuses on Gallmann's life-long affair with Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

, from her childhood's fascination for the continent (whence the title) to her decision to relocate in Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

, in 1972, to run a farm in the Laikipia plain with her husband and son. Gallmann wrote the book in 1991, twenty years after moving to Kenya, and she chose to write it in english

English language

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 as this was by then her adoptive language. The book is often compared to Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel...

's Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Out of Africa is a 1985 romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen , which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book...

, as the subject has several traits in common, and the setting is, in both cases, the savannah

Savannah

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s of Kenya, in the Great Rift Valley

Great Rift Valley

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 area. The 2000 movie of the same title

I Dreamed of Africa

I Dreamed of Africa is a 2000 film starring Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Eve Marie Saint, Garrett Strommen, Liam Aiken and Daniel Craig. It is based on the autobiographical novel I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann, an Italian writer who moved to Kenya and became involved in conservation work...

, starring Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger

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 and Hugh Hudson

Hugh Hudson

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, is based on the book.