WEIGA, KENYA - Brrriiinnnggg! Wha? Huh? . . . My head bobs from the pillow, gonging like a belfry. Where’s the fire? Brrr-iiinnnggg! There it goes again: the alarm bell. My watch says 3 a.m. A groggy rendition of an ancient lyric – “It’s 3 o’clock in the morning . . . we’ve danced the whole night through” – fox-trots across my neural mush. No, no, no. No more … [Read more...] about WAKE UP, IT’S WILD OUT THERE! SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GET UP EARLY TO SEE AFRICAN ANIMALS
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RAKITA: A MAN YOU CAN RELY UPON
ALONG THE MARA RIVER, KENYA – Going . . . going . . . however, not quite gone are Rakita and his kind. Downsized, to use a word he would not recognize, but, thankfully, not yet down and out is this good-humored, fearless little guy’s self-reliant way of making a living: hunting and gathering. As an H & G specialist of the dwindling Ndorobo tribe, he may not know he’s on … [Read more...] about RAKITA: A MAN YOU CAN RELY UPON