Giraffes
roam in Meru National Park. Picture: Rupi
Mangat
Meru:
From a poachers’ playground to a model park
WHEN
I VISITED MERU NATIONAL Park for the first
time at the turn of the new millennium, it
seemed like a ghost town — if the expression
can be used for one of Kenya’s premier parks
today.
EAST
AND CENTRAL AFRICA clubs are in Tanzania
for the Kagame Cup, a regional club
championships sponsored by Rwandan President
Paul Kagame and South African...
AFTER
PHYSICAL CLASHES of the kind we described
in my article — A Short History of Tribalism
(The East- African, June 16-22, 2008) — most
spectacular manifestation...
ON
A FRAYED MAT ON ONE of the dusty streets of
Kibera — Africa’s largest slums — in Nairobi,
Sophia Mohamed sells her wares: two mangoes,
five oranges, a half-dozen...
