Malick Bodian Photographs Mozambique's Kisawa Sanctuary for WSJ Magazine

WSJ Magazine [IG] delivers ‘Mozambique’, an exquisite, year-end December 2025/January 2026 fashion story shot at Kisawa Sanctuary [IG] by Malick Bodian [IG] in the company of his brother Ib Kamara.

On the cover [above] is Alexandre Zivane from the Kisawa team. Other models include Achol Ayor, Inosse Julião Macie, and Micklate Macobola.

Zivane wears a Dries Van Noten coat and Celine shoes for the cover. Other luxury brands 3 Paradis, Ashish, Carolina Herrera, Cecile Bahnsen, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Setchu, Zimmermann. Read all the particulars with AOC’s WSJ gift link.

Now we turn our attention to Kisawa Sanctuary.

Taking the Road Less Travelled

The backstory for this fashion story involves Thomas Flohr, the Swiss billionaire founder and Chairman of VistaJet, the global private aviation company, and its parent, Vista Global Holding. Flohr launched VistaJet in 2004, transforming it into a market leader by offering shared access to private jets.

A dedicated amateur racer, Flohr has a history of competing in endurance races like the 24 Hours of Le Mans, comparing the focus required for survival to the same mental attention needed to running his business.

In 2011,Thomas Flohr was speeding through Kenya and Tanzania in his Porsche 911, competing in the East African Safari Classic Rally.⁠ Flohr’s daughter Nina was following her father when he ran into mechanical difficulties with heavy rains.

Facing reality head-on, father Flohr dropped out of the race and conferred with his daughter about their next adventure. Mozambique was the answer, and about 15 years later, we are viewing a fashion story shot at Nina’s Kisawa Sanctuary on the southern tip of Mozambique’s Benguerra’s Island.

Opened in 2021, Kisawa has been awarded Two MICHELIN Keys in The MICHELIN Guide 2025. Numerous IG comments say that two is too few.

Nina Flohr saw a great opportunity for a different kind of African safari on her 750-acre property. Most of us have a vision of an African safari, and it doesn’t include whale-watching above the Indian Ocean from a helicopter.

Deep sea diving packages entice us to enjoy deep sea diving in search of marlins, yellowish tuna, bull sharks, manta rays, tiger sharks, sail fish and more - as well as snorkeling with sea turtles. Guests are encouraged to become a ‘Scientist for a Day’, actively participating in BCSS research with a team doing live fieldwork.

Flohr says her favorite adventure is sailing on a traditional Mozambican dhow, or fishing boat, to a remote island nearby, where a picnic awaits. “The community is largely still based on fishing,” Flohr says. “Most of the people working at the resort were fishermen previously.”  Read the entire article in comp link top of page.