Now, Our Husbands Wait for Us

The Korr region is rich with opportunities to photograph the lives of the Rendille people.  In our travels from village to village, we come upon scenes of daily life – a woman skinning a goat that has just died, women carrying water and firewood, donkeys loaded with...

You See Us, Mama Rungu

After our stop in Lengima village, we drive the two vehicles out into the vastness of the Kaisut Desert.  Low trees and scrub bushes dot the terrain, broken only by cone-shaped volcanic hills and dry river beds.  The huts of the nomadic villages, dark in color and low...

Please Teacher, Give Us More Instruction

Visitors to northern Kenya, including Kenyans, are always astonished to see a part of Kenya so neglected and poor.  For the few tourists who come to the north, there is the inevitable comparison to the other pastoralists in the south and central parts of Kenya, the...

Amina Rage Bakes a Cake

After lunch, we drive outside of town to a local campsite with thatched huts, a long drop latrine and real showers that come down from a large water container perched above a small surround of reeds.  The dramatic mountains provide a stunning backdrop to the setting. ...

Lunch at Ishmaels

The road from Ndikir to Ngurunit is one of the worst in the district.  Last November I drove this road in the dark, plowing through sand that was at times three feet deep.  The sand was so deep that it would come over the hood of the truck, necessitating the use of...