Crater Lake
A crater lake nestles on top of a hill near Saka in Western Uganda with the Rwenzori Mountain Range in the background.
Tag Archives: tree
Chopping Firewood
A bare chested Emmanuel chops some firewood at a farm in Lugari, Kenya.
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
A wire is tied to a railing at a garden in Valley Road, Nairobi.
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 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
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
A dust cloud settles over the landscape near Molo in Kenya.
Railway Crossing
A railway crossing point west of Eldoret Town near Maili Tisa.
The Conversation
Two men hold a conversation underneath a tree in the morning in Lugari District.
Dying Tree
A dried up tree along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway near Rongai in Kenya.
Walk at Sunrise
A man walks the beach at sunrise in Mombasa, Kenya
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