A female 23 year old English Phd student is set to marry and live with a Massai Warrior in a mud hut in Kenya. 'The attraction was instant,' she says. 'We had an immediate connection.'

Academically gifted, at 17 she was studying literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. At 21, disillusioned with her studies and with a failed romance behind her, she decided to take a gap year - 'I realised I needed to have an adventure and try and find myself. 'I had always wanted to go to Africa, so I found a job working for an organisation that runs orphanages in Kenya,' she says.