Apart from Bob Collymore, Here are Other Four Prominent Expatriates Who Found Love In Kenya

Bob Collymore’s wedding may have been planned quietly but it has not remained the low key affair the couple had wished.

It is the story of an expatriate coming to Kenya and falling in love with the country to the point of making it his second country and what’s more finding love in Kenya. While it is quite a romantic story, he is not the first expatriate to go through the process until he gets struck by cupid. There have been many others before him who found love in the country and progressed it with varying degrees of success. Here are the four others prominent Kenyans who found love in Kenya.

1. Michael Rannerberger

He holds the record for being the longest serving US Ambassador to Kenya at the time of his departing. He may have at one point been a prick to the Kenyan government at the time. This however, did not prevent him from falling in love with country and its activities much like Bob Collymore and becoming some sort of celebrity. He ended up meeting his love at an NGO meeting against FGM in the Maasai lady Ruth Konchellah and the couple had a similar low key civil wedding at the AG’s office in 2011. During their courtship, an elated Rannerberger would comment ‘I have been fortunate to become a king to a certain lady, and she became a queen to me. That, to me, is a very fulfilling experience

2. Ann Mcreath

The fashion industry guru came to Kenya as an aid worker and fell in love with the country back in 1996. She is easily identified as the founder and Managing director of KikoRomeo one of the leading local fashion houses in the country and region. Aside from just having fallen in love with the country’s culture and brand, she found love and had a daughter Iona Mcreath with her Kenyan partner. The daughter is also a designer at KikoRomeo

3. Dr. David Silverstein Morton

One of the most prominent Kenyan cardiologists first came to Kenya as a volunteer and as he said when speaking to Business Daily, ‘every time I was to leave I found an excuse to stay.’ He would go on to teach at UON, become one of the most soght after cardiologists at Nairobi Hospital and more prominent he would become the doctor to the then President Daniel Moi. More importantly he would find love in the country and have two sons with his Kenyan girlfriend. He still lives and works in Kenya having become a citizen and sums up his family as “I have four kids. Two who are white and two who are half black and they are all very exciting people who have made our lives whole,”

4. Bill Lay

Bill Lay has served in some of the most exciting capacities in Kenya starting off as the CEO and Chairman of General Motors and then moving to CMC and currently working as the head of KK security Oil division. He met with his wife Joyce Wanjala  Mwakalindo Lay at a memorial service for the 1998 bomb victims. She was a poor girl from Taveta who had quite a sad past but the man fell for her and has helped her rise to the Taita Taveta Women Representative. Given the women reps health condition, the couple had a surrogate birth. However, last year, Bill Lay filed for a divorce against his wife citing irreconcilable differences saying the marriage had reached a point where all attempts for reconciliation had failed.