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How Much to My House?

How Much to My House?

A woman passenger negotiates with a “bodaboda” taxi driver on the outskirts of Eldoret Town.

Amongst the Palm Trees

Amongst the Palm Trees

A winding path through a forest of palm trees in Kinango District at the Kenyan Coast.

Heading Home

Heading Home

A woman in a blue buibui dress walks down a path in Soy, Kenya near Eldoret.

A Helping Hand

A Helping Hand

A young boy assists his friend with some luggage in the outskirts of Eldoret Town.

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An Uphill Task

An Uphill Task

AGRICULTURE-AFRICA: Calls for Sustainable Green Revolution
By Wambi Michael

KAMPALA, Jul 4, 2009 (IPS) – Africa needs a Green Revolution, but one that will increase agricultural productivity by using practices that build soil fertility while minimising harm to the environment.

Organic farmers, traders and researchers from are pushing organic agriculture as suitable for Africa because it is based [...]

These Hard Times

These Hard Times

That funny kind of dress you wear,

Leaves all your back and shoulders bare,

But you’re lucky to be dressed up to there,

In these hard times.

Photo Credit: Two small girls purchase goods at a little kiosk (duka) along Kenya’s Rift Valley near Burnt Forest.

A Family That Farms Together…

A Family That Farms Together…

The Days of Small Beginnings

Joshua’s family are amazing, an example of small but significant contributions to the challenges that face Africa today. They have banded together to develop a cooperative small holder cooperative farming venture for their community in Western Kenya. Despite the fact that this is an affluent middle class, urban family, they have [...]

Master of the Cart

Master of the Cart

A man controls a cart being led by a pair of donkeys at the Kiminini Market in Western Kenya.

Where You Lead, I Will Follow

Where You Lead, I Will Follow

A young girl follows her elder sister in Eldoret North constituency outside the village of Soy.

Curious But Shy

Curious But Shy

Children in Lugari District of Kenya pose for a photograph.

Return from the Market

Return from the Market

As work progressively makes do without human life, so it ceases to make human life its ultimate end, that is, to bother with mankind.

Man has never been as unhappy as now, when he is acccumulating so much.

Nowhere is he so despised as where this accumulation is taking place. That is why the history [...]

Rolling Hill

Rolling Hill

Trees on a hill near Timboroa in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province.

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