Category: Passport
Words and Images in Transit
Safari to Samburu – Joy’s Camp, Shaba National Reserve, Samburu
Bet you didn’t know the “Big Five” refers to the five species of game hunters favor shooting; rhinoceros, leopard, Cape buffalo, lion, and elephant remain prey to human hunters in Tanzania and South Africa. Luckily, Kenya banned hunting in the 70s. Didn’t see rhino (since they’re now protected by armed guards within confines of private […]
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I couldn’t get out of Doha fast enough
Freud would have had a field day in here but I couldn’t get out fast enough.
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London 2014
Random photos taken in London mostly via Instagram: MargotKiser Follow me on Twitter:@MargotKiser
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New York City
Somewhere on Bowery St. She didn’t seem the least bit concerned about anything or anyone. The story of gentrification Same story more or less. Not sure what this is supposed to mean….’Supermarket of the Apes’? Bye, bye for now, Manhattan. Lucky shot of Central Park, an angle of the city thanks to my […]
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Marooned in Morocco
MARRAKECH, Morocco – Didn’t see much of Marrakech my first week there. Didn’t even glimpse the friends I traveled from Nairobi to meet. Nor had I spent more than fifteen minutes in the swanky hotel room before receiving word that the main subject of a story I was working on – a Muslim […]
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Marrakech Express
Firstly, a note to apologize for long absence. Some say post Westgate xenophobia has lessened. Not true if you’re a journalist in Kenya. The things I want to write about I feel I cannot. Not if I consider Kenya my home. So this is what journalistic oppression feels like. Casablanca is a sprawling, dirty, seaside […]
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A view to an Embassy
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. ~ George Orwell, British author (1903-1950) It’s a rare sunshiny day in June when I pop by Harrods the famous department store in Knightsbridge to stockpile my favorite brand of knickers before heading back to Kenya. Large families – mostly […]
