Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Kenya
TV Flash files “Kenya” as the first listed hour of season 12 — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013–2018) on CNN, season 12, episode 1, aired 2018-09-23, 75 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S12E01: listed hour 89 of 95 in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide, first listed hour of season 12. It aired 2018-09-23 (75 min). The listed hour before it is “Bhutan” (S11E08). Next is “Asturias, Spain” (S12E02).
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Anthony Bourdain introduces his fellow CNN Original Series host W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America) to the distinctive sights, tastes, and sounds of Kenya. It is Bell's first trip to the African continent, and to a country that holds a personal connection for him. In Nairobi, they talk to locals about the country's growth and economic challenges, as well as the continual fight for identity and self-definition of Kenyans. Bourdain and Bell also take a Matatu party bus ride, share a meal of goat's head soup and visit a boxing academy devoted to teaching young women, and promoting female empowerment. Leaving Nairobi the pair travel to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and visit with a Maasai community actively engaged in conservation. Through the eyes of Bourdain and Bell, and their first experiences with this highly dynamic deeply, soulful and beautiful country we ask, what will a future Kenya… for Kenyans…. by Kenyans…look like?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Kenya sit in the Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown guide?
S12E01 is listed hour 89 of 95 — first listed hour of season 12, season 12 episode 1.
When did Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown S12E01 air?
Kenya aired 2018-09-23 and is listed at 75 minutes.
Do I need to watch in order?
Each episode is a place. Jump by curiosity — Iran, Libya, Congo, or a city you think you already know. The ethic is consistent; the map is not a serial plot.
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Anthony Bourdain sits at tables through conflict and history, eating without tourist gloss. CNN as unlikely prestige: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Travel television with literary soul — curiosity as ethics — and a body of work that rewatches now as both journalism and a decade's memorial.
The first look is a table without tourist gloss. Anthony Bourdain sits with people around the world, eating through history and conflict — CNN series premiered **2013**, an unlikely network turned prestige destination: food as politics, loneliness, and grace. Multiple Emmys. Episodes in Iran, Libya, Congo and more became teaching texts. Curiosity as ethics. Travel television with literary soul — the table as journalism, the plate as pretext for who gets to be seen. Tessa's tags will rank a "best bite." Let them.…
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Anthony Bourdain sat at tables through conflict and history on Parts Unknown — CNN as unlikely prestige, food as politics, loneliness, and grace, travel television with literary soul. Curiosity as ethics. TV Flash files him as the 2010s…