Sunde is a Masai warrior. He was also a lion hunter for his tribe before he became a Lion Guardian, tracking lions and helping to prevent loss of livestock from kills in the community. This guy, at 23, clearly has some guts. Hunters go to kill lio…
It is a tough life, to learn about Masai traditional culture and life, in the village of one of your guides. Very tough. — in Selenkay Conservancy of the Masai Mara, near Amboseli National Park, Kenya [https://www.google.co.ke/maps/place/Amboseli+N…
Hello from Kenya! These guys are Big John and Jackson (guess who is who), my guides at Lion Camp. They are Masai. The safari outfit employs 98 percent of its staff as Masai tribes people, and their camps are on Masai owned conservancies. This is w…
As part of this amazing journey, I was invited by a Bukusu family to document — and thereby be a part of — their son Humphrey's journey into manhood. Circumcision rituals are sacred rites of passage for many tribal groups in Kenya. The Bukusu…
My first day in western Kenya, I went with Michael Diercks (Pomona College) to Jidereri to meet the Maragoli people who have participated in sharing their traditional language. The road was too bad so we hired piki-pikis — motorcycles — to take us o…
Hardley Singola Sinjaa bought his truck back in 2003 to carry his wife and kids and goods for their home in the village of Mahanga, Kenya. It’s very rural and few people then, and now, have vehicles. Fewer have trucks. In desperate situations, peo…
I'm going to do a series someday on "found lighting." and "MacGuyver lighting." I don't carry a tripod and I don't use lights. I love it when Mom Nature or Dad Manmade helps out and I can see something in a new way.…
I had an 8-hour bus ride today from rural western Kenya into Nairobi, and I'm tired. And need to do some uploading and real writing. The door opens to the guest house and the guy who is staying here also, who the keeper said was here, walks in.…
There is a lot of land in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is a lot of jungle. It’s there where Joseph Kony has been hiding out with his Lord’s Resistance Army [http://www.hrw.org/topic/international-justice/joseph-kony-lra], after getting…
