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Moral Lines Blur in Illegal Kenyan Elephant Poaching—‘When Lambs Become Lions,’ dir. Jon Kasbe, 2018

Director Jon Kasbe spent four years in Kenya befriending both elephant poachers and the rangers fighting to stop them. Together, they created a human and honest narrative of morality’s murkier areas

February 18th, 2020|Country: Kenya, USA|

Film: The Last Male on Earth, dir. Floor van der Meulen, 2019

As the last male northern white rhino in existence nears the end of his life, humans hurry to revive the extinct species in a tragicomic farce of conservation efforts in this observant documentary

November 25th, 2019|Country: Belgium, Germany, Kenya, Netherlands|

Film: Supa Modo, dir. Likarion Wainaina, 2018

Kenya's 2019 Oscar entry about a terminally ill 9-year-old girl who pretends to be a superhero and turns out to be one in real life: a brilliant, brave film on a highly exploited topic

July 19th, 2019|Country: Germany, Kenya|

Film: In Search, dir. Beryl Magoko, 2018

A different take on the subject of female genital mutilation through a personal story of the survivor who searches for answers and a cure because of a mistake she made as a young girl

July 12th, 2019|Country: Germany, Kenya|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Book: Tom Sleigh, The Land Between Two Rivers, 2018

February 3rd, 2019|Country: Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, USA, Wales|

Book: Rachel Love Nuwer, Poached, 2018

December 4th, 2018|Country: Chad, China, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Thailand, USA, Vietnam|

Music: Orchestre Les Mangelepa, Last Band Standing, 2017

August 7th, 2018|Country: DR Congo, Kenya|