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Crater Lake

Crater Lake

A crater lake nestles on top of a hill near Saka in Western Uganda with the Rwenzori Mountain Range in the background.

Chopping Firewood

Chopping Firewood

A bare chested Emmanuel chops some firewood at a farm in Lugari, Kenya.

I Look Up To You

I Look Up To You

The Christian symbol of a cross boldly advertises a church on a cloudy day in Ruaraka, Kenya.

The Knot That Ties

The Knot That Ties

A wire is tied to a railing at a garden in Valley Road, Nairobi.

Prospering Against All Odds

Prospering Against All Odds

Young transplanted mangrove trees grow in a tract of land that has faced heavy deforestation in Kinango near the Kenya Coast. In a measure to combat this, the Kenya Forestry Service planted young mangroves with a 90% failure rate due to poor soil nutrients. A different species was introduced in the area and it has [...]

Speak Truth To Power

Speak Truth To Power

Speak Truth To Power by Ariel Dorfman

I don’t want to pretend I was a hero

In the beginning I had neither pen nor paper to work with

But you don’t live your life in fear

and give people power over you

who can create fear

It would be better to die early

Anything else would have tasted like ashes

That’s what you [...]

Trying to Stay Up

Trying to Stay Up

A weathered tree stands out amongst bushes at the Nairobi National Park.

Optimism

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another.
A blind [...]

Dusty Landscape

Dusty Landscape

A dust cloud settles over the landscape near Molo in Kenya.

Railway Crossing

Railway Crossing

A railway crossing point west of Eldoret Town near Maili Tisa.

The Conversation

The Conversation

Two men hold a conversation underneath a tree in the morning in Lugari District.

Dying Tree

Dying Tree

A dried up tree along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway near Rongai in Kenya.

Walk at Sunrise

Walk at Sunrise

A man walks the beach at sunrise in Mombasa, Kenya

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