Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
Errol spent decades on the Kenyan coast—first Shanzu in Mombasa, then in Lamu town—where she became a fixture in the local art, literary, and social scenes. Her books, including The Life and Death of Lord Erroll and Silence Will Speak, helped inspire the screen play for Out of Africa.
In 2001, her life took a dark turn.
Kenya’s Worst Rhino Massacre Was the Work of People Trying to Save the Species THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES Margot Kiser Published Oct. 08, 2018 5:22AM ET NAIROBI—You may have missed World Rhino Day last month. Even here in Kenya, many people did. Such events rarely raise the public’s consciousness the way they should, and this year, certainly, […]
Update to my The Daily Beast story Who Killed This Man Who Saved So Many Rhinos and Elephants? On February 4th, 76 year-old wildlife conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin was found slaughtered in his mansion in Langata, a posh residential enclave in Nairobi. The “knife” that police and media had described as the murder weapon was […]
A land grab may have been behind the murder in Kenya of American conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin.
Coffee table books and novels about Africa with ‘Africa’ in their titles seem to stand a better chance of becoming best sellers, or so I hear. “Out of Africa”, “Nowhere in Africa”, “I Dream of Africa” would seem to suggest so. By that formula nothing would sell Africa better than a DVD cover featuring Brad […]
March, 2015 I’d been on the hunt for former U.S. security firm Blackwater owner, Erik Prince, for Newsweek. At the time Prince’s Malta-based logistics company, Frontier Services Group, was sending supplies and repairing oil production facilities. Contrary to some reports, sources said he’d also been training police and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army – SPLA – to […]
South Sudan’s civil war has been a disaster for humans and animals alike. Soldiers on both sides have turned the slaughter of giraffes and other animals into an industry.
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The irony and tragedy of Wolf Number Ten’s long journey is in having successfully habituated to its new environs only to stray outside the park, where it meets its fate
The Economics of Extinction: Africa’s Elephants and Rhinos in Danger | Margot Kiser Jan 29, 2013 12:00 AM EST How long before Africa’s rhinos and elephants are wiped out in the wild? You wouldn’t think a room as big as a warehouse could feel this airless — not even a maximum-security warehouse, like this one. […]
My Lamu hippo piece ran in the East African last week. Read it online here.
