Beetles

Beetles

With its iridescent carapace glinting in the African sunshine, the ungainly beetle lumbered unhesitatingly over the edge of the concrete staircase. The fall tumbled it onto its back and stunned it into temporary immobility. Slowly it began waving its legs, clawing at…

Off-Track in the Kenyan Highlands

Snow-capped peaks rise above open moorland under a bank of cloud.

One of the last things I had to do, before I ended my tour of duty in Kenya, was pay a final site visit to the Mobile Pastoral Training Unit (MPTU), a CIDA-sponsored development project located in central Kenya. The drive north…