Tanzania's Maasai battle game hunters for grazing land

Tanzania's Maasai battle game hunters for grazing land

What's happening is wrong! I used to live in Arusha. I hunted around Arusha. I've been in Ngorongoro Crater and camped in the Serengeti. I've observed the Maasai in those areas. The only threat they pose is to the cats who prey upon their cattle. Other game ignores them because they are accepted as non-threatening. This is a matter of greed for foreign currency and not a matter of wildlife conservation.

Arusha Market Place

Back in the early 10970's I bought this painting on the street in Arusha, Tanzania.  I only got it framed a few weeks ago.  (Framing today cost about 10 times what the original painting cost!)  It now brings beauty and memories as it hangs in my living room.

The BIG FIVE -- Tembo

Tembo - Lake Manyara, Tanzania

The BIG FIVE -- Mbogo

Mbogo -- Lake Manyara, Tanzania

The BIG FIVE -- Chui

Chui -- Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

The BIG FIVE -- Kifaru

Kifaru - Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Tembo -- Lake Manyara, Tanzania

Tembo -- Lake Manyara, Tanzania

Serengeti Migration 1972

The African Queen Today

Hope yet for African Queen gunboat on Lake Tanganyika

Waterfall inside Mt. Meru Crater

A waterfall inside the crater of Mt. Meru -- Arusha, Tanzania

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Leopard Resting

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Zaburi Jazz Band

The Zaburi Jazz Band was a group of students at The Baptist Theological Seminary of East Africa just outside Arusha, Tanzania in the early 1970's. Zaburi is "Psalms" in kiSwahili.

One of the sad results of global warming. The snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro used to be abundant and beautiful. It will be sad to lose it. Read:

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro

Hungry to learn across the world

Here's an inspirational story from Tanzania.

Hungry to learn across the world

Maasai Warrior

Here is a Maasai warrior in full ceremonial dress in front of the house where I lived in Arusha, Tanzania long ago.

Serengeti Wildebeest Migration

Serengeti Shall Not Die

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Bernhard and Michael Grzimek brought the Serengeti to world attention with the book and movie Serengeti Shall Not Die. Unfortunately, Michael Grzimek was killed in a plane crash when a griffon-vulture hit his wing and blocked the rudder cables. He was buried on the rim of Ngorongoro crater overlooking the base of the crater. Above is a photo of the memorial erected at his grave.

Olduvai Gorge

In 1960 I got my first subscription to National Geographic Magazine. That year there was an article that fascinated me greatly. It was about the discovery of Australopithecus boisei, or Zinjanthropus man, by Louis Leakey in Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika. Little did I dream that about 10 years later I would have the privilege of visiting the site.

Olduvai Gorge

Olduvai Gorge

Olduvai Gorge

The site of the discovery of Zinjanthropus man.

Leakey's assistant, I believe his name is Francis, showing the major excavation site at the time of my visit. It was covered to protect it from the elements.

Small markers indicate fossils being carefully excavated from the site.

A portion of a leg bone of a prehistoric elephant.

Almost any stone lying around contained fossilized remains.

I later was able to see the Zinjanthropus man skull at the National Museum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

When First I Lived In Africa

When first I lived in Africa, I lived about 20 kilometers outside Arusha, Tanzania at the foot of Mt. Meru. My house was among the student houses at the Chuo cha waBatisti cha Theologia cha Afrika ya Mashariki (the Baptist Theological Seminary of East Africa).


My house seemed HUGE to me after a college dorm room. I had 2 small bed rooms, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a dining room/butchery.


My house looked out on the student shambas (gardens). Beyond the student shambas and the jacaranda trees was a coffee plantation.


My living room was decorated with the skin and horns of a Thompson's Gazelle, from my first hunting experience. Maasai and Gogo spears, a Maasai shield and simi, Gogo ax were among the decorations on the wall.


Carvings, Indian brass ware and an ebony and ivory chess set rounded out the decor.

It was quite a mansion. Nyumba yangu!