The Kenya Safari Acrobats are a troupe devoted to the promotion of African circus entertainment. Long recognized as the birthplace of human civilization, Africa is only now being recognized in the cultural world as being the starting point of the veritable institution we call the circus. Long before humanity even set foot in Europe, African culture was thriving and celebrating itself in the traditional acrobatic style called siricasi in Swahili. Many forms of acrobatics derive their origin from Kenya.

The Kenya Safari Acrobats hail from Mombassa, Kenya. This high spirited group has entertained audiences from around the world for the past ten years. They have performed at NBA half time shows, festivals, circuses, universities, zoos and a myriad of other special events.

The acrobats perform their feats in authentic native costumes. While trained in many conventional circus arts, the troupe likes to present their audiences with unusual feats such as bench balancing, contortionism, their own brand of rope skipping and the infamous limbo.

The most famous acrobatic skill is limbo. While our word limbo is derived from African influence in Brazil, limbo is said to have developed out of the ancient African folk story of Tipitomi’s last great feat. When the father of the ancient Bantu gods tried to destroy Tipitomi once and for all, he commanded that they try and dance under a flaming pole in order to burn him alive. The father said that if Tipitomi could survive five attempts under the fiery rod that he would have to set mankind free of its ailments for one year. With each successful attempt of Tipitomi the audiences cheered and the costumed representation of the Father god got ever more angry. "Lower, lower," he would shout until the bar seemed just off the ground. This final stage of the limbo art is greeted with the greatest cheer and subsequently a lively dance and ritual celebration of Tipitomi as hero to the Bantu people.