Marsabit, Kenya, by David Blumenkrantz. 1987


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Articles and Journals
This section contains articles and essays that were written for publication, interviews, and first-person accounts originally written as journal entries.

Uganda
· Thirty Tons of Soil: Nanyonga's Divine Panacea The strange saga of an elderly peasant woman who claims God blessed her soil, and instructed her to feed it to the sick. (Article)
· AIDS in Uganda Interviews with members of TASO, the first African AIDS counseling program. (Interviews)

Eritrea
· Shooting Guns and Cameras First-person account of running a photography training program for freedom fighters in a country about to gain its independence. (Article)
· Interview With Hannah Simon A wide-ranging discussion about Eritrea's struggle for independence from Ethiopia. Hannah tells what is was like to be one of the many women fighters in the field. (Article)

Kenya
· Street Children and Urban Poverty Working for the Undugu Society of Kenya (Series of articles, interviews and personal reflections)
· General China's Burial Ceremony China was a legendary leader in Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule (Article)
· Tea Life The life of tea pickers (Article)
· Squatting First-person account of learning how to squat and farm on government property in Nairobi (Journal)
· Faith and Mary Akatsa Ruminations on dealing with con men, religious charlatans, and the simply misguided (Journal)
· Interview with Shaka Zulu Assegai One African-American's struggle for acceptance in Africa (Interview)
· White Like Me
Not a new range of cosmetics from South Africa, but reflections on living in Black Man's Country (Essay)
· Paulo the Pilot The misadventures of an intrepid pilot on the loose in Africa (Journal)

Sudan

· The Innocent Always Suffer A look at the ravages of civil war on the people of south Sudan, and the efforts made by relief agencies to help (Article)
· Fear and Madness in South Sudan Food and medical relief in a civil war zone, featuring corrupt rebels, malarial expatriates and stampeding elephants . . . (Journal)

Zaire
· Incident in Ankoro A life-saving operation in a bush hospital serves as a dose of harsh reality to a photojournalist with less than a week's experience in Africa (Journal)

 

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