a pile of baby elephants

Happy things in Kenya:

jubalation

From Kampala, took an overnight bus up to (the country formerly known as) Sudan. Birth of a new nation, all that. It was awesome. And hot.

Best dressed kid I saw:


SPLA everywhere. Saw not just one, but several asleep on sidewalks with a stash of RPGs next to them. I love weapon safety practices.


You know it's hot when the Sudanese are passing out. Still, the number of times the emcee was able to get the crowd to pump their fists and wave their flags with a rousing cheer of "South Sudan Woye!" was impressive. I am led to believe that "woye" means "hooray." They woye-ed everything.


A goat market in Juba. Most of the goats were bought up for celebratory slaughter purposes. Goat slaughter (or, goats laughter) woye!

grocery shopping in Kampala

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any brains or hooves.

Nairobi by car

The internet we've been sponging off the UN for the last month stopped working last week. If it starts working again, the quality and frequency of these posts will improve. In the meantime, here's a video of Nairobi that my flatmate made for her job - it's the drive we make every day, rain or shine:

jambo

I'm in Nairobi for a few months. Doing some legal and advocacy work with refugees, and trying not to get myself killed by wildebeests or matatus on the weekends. More photos to come soon.

apologies

Law school (and efforts to distract myself from law school) took me a way for a spell. So, here's a goat, asking your forgiveness: