Taxi cab confessions in Nairobi
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under kenya
Masha Mwangi: "You must live up to your name."
The following what I get for singing along with old church hymns randomly in a cab.
I would like to introduce you to Masha Mwangi, a 29-year-old born-again Christian cabbie, new-found friend and available driver, should anyone be in Nairobi.
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Tags: born-again, cab, christianity, father, god, kenya, methodists, nairobi, taxi
Nairobi in bloom
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under kenya
Nairobi's version of magnolia
Nairobi can be an ugly dirty place. But right now, as a short rainy season approaches, the jacaranda trees are in full bloom. The blossoms constantly fall, not unlike magnolias back home.
And it’s beautiful.
Tags: environment, flowers, jacaranda, kenya, nairobi, photography
MBG: Development through conservation
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Chris Birkinshaw (right) and Christian Camara (center), both of MoBot, inspect flora at the Ankafobe reserve in Central Madagascar
Solofo, president of the local fokontany, checks sohisika seedlings at the nursery
Seedlings of sohisika, a tree endemic to only a few small stands of forest in central Madagascar
Before leaving Madagascar, I took a day-trip with botanists Chris Birkinshaw and Christian Camara from the Missouri Botanical Garden to inspect a small nature reserve and several associated projects.
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Tags: ankafobe, antananarivo, conservation, environment, madagascar, missouri botanical garden, photography, plants, sohisika, trees
≤20 seconds: Dancing lemurs
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
I’ve decided to begin posting video shorts — ≤20 seconds — of particularly compelling, stunning or funny scenes. Think slice-of-life moments that cry out for more than just a photo. I’ll be adding these from time to time to the blog in a separate category, as well as to a new YouTube channel.
The first (more lemur-induced laughs) comes from southern Madagascar at the Reserve de Nahampoana.
I can already hear exactly how at least one of you will giggle.
Tags: cute, lemur, less than 20 seconds, madagascar, reserve de nahampoana, sifaka, tourism, video short, wildlife
Ring, brown and sifaka, oh my! (photos)
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Tags: environment, fauna, flora, ft dauphin, lemur, lemurs, madagascar, photography, reserve de nahampoana, sifaka, tourism, wildlife
Video/photos: Circumcision gaining ground in western Kenya
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under kenya
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Tags: aids, circumcision, health, hiv, katito, kenya, kisumu, luo, nyanza, public health
Sifaka is pronounced ‘shif-akh’ (photo)
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Hello, sifaka.
Cute little bastard, isn’t he? One of the Reserve de Nahampoana’s many funny “dancing” lemurs, so named because when on the ground they hop sideways everywhere they go. More photos coming soon.
Tags: ft dauphin, lemur, madagascar, photography, sifaka, wildlife
Meat, glorious meat
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
Plastic wrap isn't exactly an option.
Tags: antananarivo, emerging nations, food, madagascar, market, meat, more meat, photography, poverty
Does this look like a titanium mine?
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
The mining company's big gambit
I came to Ft. Dauphin in remote southern Madagascar for one primary purpose: to visit the Rio Tinto titanium mine that is pledging to be environmentally friendly.
This photo came from the nature conservancy at the first mine site in Mandena; the nursery above will be used when the company attempts the gargantuan task of regrowing precious littoral (coastal) forest out of fields of sand left behind by the mine.
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Tags: conservation, environment, forest, ft dauphin, madagascar, mining, nursery, plants, rio tinto, titanium
The simple (read: poor) life in southern Madagascar
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under madagascar
A typical roadside hut in southern Madagascar
Tags: bush, emerging nations, ft dauphin, madagascar, photography, poverty, rural, village
