The problem There were few African doctors working in East Africa during the colonial period. In 1958, one of them, Samson Nathan Mwathi, at a conference in San Francisco, USA, gave a talk titled Medical Problems in Kenya (which can be read here). Highlighting one of the problems, he said: We need many more African …
In 1973-4, David and Judith MacDougall’s filmed the documentary Lorang’s Way in the north of Kenya. It is a fascinating reality-tv-like piece on life in Turkana in the days when the president of Kenya was Jomo Kenyatta. The film follows a Turkana man called Lorang as he generously shares with the viewers, his life, including …
One of the groups of indigenous people who live in the north of Kenya, the Turkana, call the large, stunning, green lake Anam Ka’alakol, meaning “the sea of many fish”. Lake Turkana is an important resource, in particular, for the people of the north of Kenya. (For more on the culture and heritage found in …