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Fifty years after Out of Africa, an American journalist writes of her friendship with the inhabitants of a Maasai village in Kenya and offers an unprecedented portrait of an extraordinary people and a rapidly vanishing way of life. 16 pages of photos. Between 1980 and 1986 the author accompanied her husband, a newspaper correspondent, on his assignment to Kenya. There she happened to get to know very well two English-speaking Maasai schoolboys, Joseph and Noah, who introduced her to their village in the Great Rift Valley. There she met their parents and siblings, their teacher, William ole Sekento, who acted as her interpreter, and other leading figures in the village. During her stay, an arsonist burned down a Maasai village, a man was eaten by a lion, there was an involved trial, and the Maasai’s grazing land shrank steadily as other tribes encroached on their territory. She describes the changing times and economic decline of a proud people.
Hardcover. First Edition. Used. Like New, Tight clean copy, no pen inscriptions, Dust Wrapper great, a copy to be proud of
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