After ten trips to Africa, there is little that can shock me and not much I haven't done. I have slept in a Maasai village; slaughtered goats for community festivals; danced with Maasai warriors and gone dirty dancing in Nairobi nightclubs. Still, the one thing I had not done until...

The afternoon began inauspiciously enough. Sekeyian Yiaile, our executive director, and Cassandara Selberg, our medical director, were scheduled to meet with Maasai women, in a village adjoining our headquarters in the Talek region of the Maasai Mara in Southern Kenya. The purpose of the meeting was to conduct a...

A specter is haunting Africa -- the specter of Obama. All the governmental powers of repression and ineptitude have entered into a desperate alliance to exorcise this specter: Dictator and Kleptocrat, Bumbler and Demagogue, Militarist and Charlatan.

From Massai herdsman, to Zimbabwean opposition leader; from woman micro-capitalist to death defying...

As the chronicler of most things American, it is not surprising that Walt Disney can be looked to for what stands out to Americans about Africa.. The phrase "Hakuna Matata" ("no problem") popularized in the blockbuster movie Lion King represents a fundamental tenant of the African consciousness. Time does not...

The sun is rising over the Serengeti. It is 8:00 am and we have been on the road for almost two hours, crossing the Kenyan bush for a Maasai political rally 235 kilometers from our point of origin. Up until now, the roads have been pitted, wash-boarded and rocky,...

The pitted road was impregnated with rocks and small boulders as our 4 wheel drive Toyota dodged zebra, gazelles and impala's across the Massai Mara. Yet the wild animals and natural splendor are only tangential to our journey that afternoon. We are heading to the Sienna Boarding School, just outside...