Kenya: The Old Ways of the Maasai

29 October 2011

I must have told this little story before: Back in the late 1960s my wife and I and two friends were driving from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam. It was the worst time of year for such a journey, because the long rains had started.

A key bridge connecting Dar to its hinterland was down - but not for long, because the Safari Rally was about to use that road and so something was done as a matter of urgency. Some army engineers quickly assembled a Bailey bridge.

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