We approached a man carrying a machete and what looked like the trunk of an oil palm tree. In French, one of us asked, “Why do you bury dead here, in front of your house?”
He smiled. “So that they can watch over me and my family,” he said.
Entries from July 2009
Front-yard Graveyard
July 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Field Visits
A Story-telling Festival in Nairobi
July 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment
At the start of the story-telling festival at L’Alliance Française, a cultural center in the heart of Nairobi, the host imposed a condition on the audience: we must promise to share the stories we hear. “Deal?” he asked. “Deal” we answered. “Sawa sawa,” he said, and the storytelling began, the first from Kenya.
Tags: Field Visits
