BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Close up of the rock climber on the cliff face of Lukenya belonging to the Mountain Club of Kenya. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: The East African Nation media It looks like Spider-Man is inching his way up a gigantic cliff. He’s spread eagle and through my zoom l see his muscles taut as he […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: The Blue marlin, the ‘Grander’ and a shark at Malindi Sea Fishling Club. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: The East African Nation – 28 September 2019 I’m very hot and very hungry. It’s the middle of the day and l’m exhausted from playing tour guide to a friend, showing her places of interest in a […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Moshions. Haute Couture in Kigali. Copyright Rupi Mangat. Published 5 October 2019 I’m in the heart of mille collines – Kigali in Rwanda – and l’m having a blast. The city is sophisticated, charming, spotlessly clean and elegant that l’m cast under its spell.
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: African Rock Art with giraffe illuminated against the night sky, north Kenya. Copyright: Paolo Torchio Published: The East African Nation Media 28 September to 4 October 2019, abrdiged version “It’s the night sky, the same night sky seen thousands of years ago by another person,” explains Paolo Torchio. “It’s what l wanted to capture.” […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Roundabout in Gisenyi. Copyrght Rupi Mangat Published: 21 September 2019 Gisenyi in western Rwanda is the other half of an urban landscape that includes Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. So like Goma, Gisenyi is perched on the edge of the gas-filled Lake Kivu that is one of the African great lakes.
BY Rupi Mangat
Part 2 of 2 I’m sitting on the saddle of the Sekerr mountain range between the peaks of Katugh and the rest: Kaimut, Chaichai and the famous Mtelo that is the peak and the fifth highest point in Kenya at 10,944 feet. It is also the sacred mountain of the Pokot and all face the […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Part 1 of 2 Above: Baboon parliament on Kaimot Hill in Sekerr Range. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published 24 August 2019 saturday Nation magazine Little known and shrouded in secrecy, the Sekerr range is a striking feature of the Pokot land in north-western Kenya. Reaching Kapenguria at dusk from South Nandi forest we’re unsure whether we […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Part 1 of 2 Above: Baboon parliament on Kaimot Hill in Sekerr Range. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published 24 August 2019 saturday Nation magazine Little known and shrouded in secrecy, the Sekerr range is a striking feature of the Pokot land in north-western Kenya. Reaching Kapenguria at dusk from South Nandi forest we’re unsure whether we […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Maasai giraffe, mother and calf. In Maasai Mara. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: 27 Juy 2019 It’s the mid-year bonanza in the Maasai Mara. It’s lush and green after a long dry spell. We’re in the south-eastern part of the 1,510-square-kilometre park that is a continuation of the 14,750-square-kilometres Serengeti National Park. It is this […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: CBD Goma. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: 20 July 2019 Congo’s been my dream destination even before Nyiragongo erupted in 2002 and nearly wiped out the little town of Goma in eastern DRC that’s on the shores of Lake Kivu and neighbouring Rwanda. The country is gigantic and the second largest in Africa, the Congo […]
