From the outset she rails against the racism Lketinga endures and the treatment of the Masai by Europeans and urban Africans as primitive tribesmen, meanwhile musing on Lketinga's exoticism and the erotic effect of his "savage perfume". Throughout the book Lketinga is never portrayed as anything other than some kind of man-child. When they go to visit another white woman married to a Masai, Hofmann is mortified: