BY Rupi Mangat
From the archives: February 2015 Above: Spinner Dolphin on the Tanzania Indian Ocean. Copyright Gill Braulik Published in The East African Nation Media 27 Feb 2015 It’s exciting talking to Dr Gill Braulik who for the last 18 years has been following dolphins and whales around the Indian Ocean. In a few days time, she […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above:The century-old Orion Tabora Hotel Copyright Rupi Mangat The half-way town from Arusha to Kigoma Published Nation media Saturday magazine 4 November 2017 650 kilometers west of Arusha, we’re in Tabora It has long intrigued me. David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, the hard-wired calculating American (but British-born) journalist spent five months in 1872 at […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Part 2 of 2 By the river’s edge Watch the drama Published 14 October 2017 Saturday magazine Nation newspaper Above: Tarangire – land of the giants – centuries-old baobab tree and elephant Copyright Rupi It’s stark dry – August at the height of the dry season. Tall and golden, the sun-bleached grass shimmers under the […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Amidst the baobabs Published Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper 7 October 2017 Above: Elephant dwarfed by centuries-old baobab tree near Randilen Wildlife Management Area by Tarangire National Park, Tanzania Picture Galib Mangat There are few grand arrivals as memorable as this. Stopping at the gate of Randilen Wildlife Management Area that hosts the stunning Tarangire Treetops […]
BY Rupi Mangat
For the chimpanzees (sokwe mtu in Kiswahili) Published The East African Nation media 16-22 September 2017 Above: Playful young chimpanzee in Gombe National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Copyright Rupi Mangat When l heard Dr Jane Goodall talk in Nairobi about her ground-breaking pioneering chimpanzee research in Gombe it became my mission to get […]
