Directed by Sidney Pollack Beyond Africa The East African country was a different one, says Philip Eichkorn from the luxury travel provider Safari Memories. In the mid-1980s, around 20 million people lived in Kenya; currently there are almost three times as many. The number of cattle and other farm animals has also tripled. Which, conversely, means that the habitat of lions, hippos and the like has significantly reduced and is essentially limited to nature reserves.