Above and Beyond: Flying Safaris
A great article in UK newspaper Financial Times’ ‘How to Spend it’ magazine, about flying safaris in some of the world’s most remote and beautiful…
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Prince William’s appeal to tackle animal poaching
I read a great article in UK newspaper The Telegraph about how the Duke of Cambridge, at the premiere of ‘African Cats’, appealed for immediate…
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Motherly love in the animal world
My lighthearted post of the week… just some very loving images of young animals and their mothers that I came across and which made me…
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Serengeti Spy: Views from a Hidden Camera on the Plains of East Africa
I’m looking forward to the release of this surely very fascinating book. In these spectacular photographs taken in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and the…
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David Lloyd Wildlife Photography
I came across this beautiful dramatic close up of an elephant on the paradise plain in Kenya’s Masaai Mara game reserve by award-winnning photographer David…
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The Living Walls Program
I read an interesting article, including an interview with Masaai Women, in National Geographic about the effect The Living Walls Program – an initiative by…
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Kenyan Artwork Growing in International Popularity
It’s great to read that works by Kenyan artists are growing in international popularity and are exhibited at world-class galleries around the globe.
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Prins William and his wife Kate attend the ‘African Cats’ London premiere
Yesterday Prince William and his wife Kate were guests of honor at the U.K. premiere of Disneynature’s “African Cats“, which was filmed in Kenya’s Masai…
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Kenyan Runners Triumph In London Marathon
We at Lady Lori are pleased to acknowledge Kenyans Mary Keitany and Wilson Kipsang as the winners of the 2012 women’s and men’s London Marathon….
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Gonçalo Mabunda
Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda creates sculptures out of deactivated weapons from the 1977-1992 civil war.
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‘Invisible Borders: The Trans-African Photography Project’ on show in New York’s New Museum until April 22.
‘Invisible Borders’ – an annual trans-African photography project that takes artists on different journeys across Africa to document the changing environments and lives they encounter,…
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Striking portraits of tribes from Southern Ethiopia
Isabel Muñoz is a Spanish photographer from Madrid who explored southern Ethiopia to photograph 21st century Surma, Nyangatom, Bodi and Topossa tribal members.
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‘Home Again’ by Michael Kiwanuka
‘Home again’ is the debut album of young British soul artist Michael Kiwanuka, winner of UK’s ‘BBC Sound of 2012 poll’.
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Kibera, Nairobi
After British photographer Nicolai Amter finished a job for the BBC in Kibera, Nairobi, he felt he had to go back to explore the place…
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“Natural World: Queen of the Savannah” – Tonight on BBC Two, 8.00 pm
This evening on UK television: the BBC’s award-winning flagship natural history series “Natural World”
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Chimpanzee Portraits
These arresting photographs of chimpanzees were taken in the ‘Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary’ in Kenya, by Spanish photographer Gabi Guiard.
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Elephants scared by flock of birds
Some incredible images of an elephant pair that got scared away by a jumbo cloud of small red-billed queleas, while they were peacefully trying to…
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so much animal pain, so little human gain – an article by Jane Goodall
I read an interesting article by primatologist Dame Jane Goodall in UK newspaper The Times last Saturday, in which Goodall argues that medical research will…
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Lady Lori attempts to fight off one of the largest forest fires in Kenya
Yesterday afternoon Shawn Evans, our Canadian Long-lining specialist, his Lady Lori AS350B3 and the heroic ground team were battling to save a school that was…
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“Born Free” Movie Poster (1968)
I’ve just come across this odd/unexpected Polish film poster for the 1966 classic movie “Born Free”, which tells the story of real-life couple Joy and…
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“Turkana. Cultures of Change” by Ross McDonnell
A beautiful photo essay by Ross McDonnell that documents, from a cultural perspective, the impact of climate change on the tribal communities of the Turkana…
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‘Town of Runners’ A documentary about young Ethiopian runners
“Town of Runners” is a moving and insightful new documentary by award-winning Kenyan filmmaker Jerry Rothwell about young runners from Bekoji – an Ethiopian highland…
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“One Day I Will Write About This Place” by Binyavanga Wainaina
Kenyan author and journalist Binyavanga Wainaina‘s debut novel and memoir “One Day I Will Write About This Place” takes you through his middleclass Kenyan childhood,…
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National Geographic Magazine on Rhino Wars
The cover of the March edition of National Geographic Magazine shows this image of a black rhino fleeing ropers in eastern Kenya in 1968. Its…
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Kenya by Jonathan May
Award-winning photographer Jonathan May, from Sydney, Australia, imbues his subjects with humour and poignancy. His instinctual ability to take a concept and tell a fascinating…
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Ndoto – Tanzania Dream
A photo book full of stunning images of landscapes and the everyday life of the Masai in Tanzania, by Dutch photographer Aernout Overbeeke.
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Kenyan Eco-Entrepeneur Lorna Rutto wins at the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards 2011
The Cartier Women’s Initiative awards is an annual competition giving much-deserved recognition to socially responsible women entrepeneurs from six world regions – including this year,…
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‘Kinshasa Succursale’ by Baloji
In this latest music album, Congolese musical sorcerer Baloji has conjured up his own world in which the rhythms of traditional Africa, the beats and…
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Sudan voted as Top Emerging Destination in the UK Wanderlust Travel Awards 2012
Readers of UK travel magazine Wanderlust have voted Sudan as the top emerging destination, followed by Greenland and Mongolia.
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‘The Wildlife Researcher’
Kenya’s wildlife authority, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), has released the first issue of its e-science bulletin ‘The Wildlife Researcher‘ to share information with internal and…
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‘Matatu Project’ by Dennis Muraguri
An exhibition by Kenyan artist Dennis Muraguri is currently on at Le Rustique Restaurant in Nairobi until 22nd February.
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‘Running with the Kenyans’ by Adharanand Finn
This books describes the incredible journey of Adharanand Finn from the English Countryside to the training camps in Kenya to uncover the secrets of the…
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Blooming Business in Kenya
Being from Holland – country of the flowers – I was more than a little surprised to read an article in UK magazine GEO about…
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‘Lost Kingdoms of Africa’ series two – starts tonight on BBC Four
Tonight the first episode of the second series of ‘Lost Kingdoms of Africa’ is being broadcasted in the UK on BBC Four at 9 pm.
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New Year’s Day in a Hot Air Balloon.
Although I post this late, I thought you might still be interested to know what Lady Lori was up to on New Year’s day…
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WWF Desertification Campaign
I came across these impressive images used for a WWF campaign on desertification
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller.
I have just finished reading this wonderful book, in which Alexandra Fuller tells the moving story about the life of her extraordinary mother, ‘Nicola Fuller…
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Breakfast in Tanzania (on New Year’s Day).
Even though I’m posting this a few days late, I thought that you might like to see this evocative photograph taken by Lady Lori’s Chief…
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Ayah Ye! Moving Train by KG Omulo
Kenyan expatriate KG Omulo, singer-songwriter and bandleader, has just released his debut album which runs from the righteous political Afrobeat of “Intervention” to the whimsical…
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David Attenborough’s urgent appeal to save the eastern lowland gorilla
David Attenborough, Vice President of the International Conservation Charity Fauna and Flora International, ran an urgent appeal over Christmas in a number of UK newspapers…