Season 12
The concluding episodes premiered on Sunday, September 23, showcasing a journey to Kenya featuring W. Kamau Bell. The seven-episode season also encompasses journeys to Indonesia, Texas, Spain, and New York City's Lower East Side, along with two specials.
Episode Guide
Bourdain guides fellow CNN Original Series host W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America) through Kenya’s distinctive sights, tastes, and sounds. Bell is making his first trip to the African continent, and to a country that holds personal significance for him. In Nairobi, they speak with locals about the country’s growth and economic challenges, as well as the ongoing struggle for identity and self-definition among Kenyans. The duo also takes a Matatu party bus ride, shares a meal of goat’s head soup, and visits a boxing academy devoted to teaching young women and promoting female empowerment. Leaving Nairobi, they travel to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to meet a Maasai community actively engaged in conservation. Through the eyes of Bourdain and Bell and their first experiences with this dynamic, soulful, and beautiful country, we ask: what will a future Kenya… for Kenyans… by Kenyans… look like?