Akuna matata: the Maasai
The road winds like a rusty snake, catching up with the numerous villages of aborigines lost among the horizons of the savannah. The Maasai are perhaps one of the most colorful tribes in East Africa…
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The road winds like a rusty snake, catching up with the numerous villages of aborigines lost among the horizons of the savannah. The Maasai are perhaps one of the most colorful tribes in East Africa…
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One day at sunset of a working day, when the air temperature was relentlessly approaching body temperature and the fan was vainly shaking the long-dead air from thirst, cherishing the thought of an…
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Kenya shocked us with the grayness and poverty of its capital. Our hotel Sixhundredeighty (“680”) was located almost in the center, next to the Kenyan National Museum, which has long needed…
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The next morning we raced in a veteran safari Land Cruiser to Maasai Mara Park – a state reserve located 390 kilometers from Nairobi. Baboons and red gazelles occasionally crossed the road; we lunged…
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"Why Africa?" – three guys asked in February from the height of Kyiv billboards to chilled pedestrians and hurried motorists. "Why, why..." – muttered Kyivites, rushing to work, to the store, home…
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"I know what to do!" cried Bagheera, jumping up. "Go quickly down to the valley, to the huts of men, and get the Red Flower from them. Then you will have an ally stronger than me or Baloo, or those…
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Everyone had been waiting for this step for a long time and with impatience. Rumors that the team was going to do underwater driving in a production jeep had been persistently circulating in…
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It was not the ice of a lake or the scorching African soil, but the sheer wall of a 25-meter building almost in the center of Kyiv that took on the third step of the Equites team on their way to…
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On August 7, as part of the project 'Equites': 'Ten Steps to Africa', a group of journalists from leading capital publications, together with a team of 'riders' – Goltis, Sasha, and Kostya – began…
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As promised, "Zagranitsa" continues its series of reports about the Ukrainian team Equites. Let us briefly recall the essence of the matter. The Equites team's trek along the entire coast of Africa…
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A week ago, the Equites team set off to take the final preparatory step before beginning their multi-month and arduous journey across Africa. With this step, the team intends to mark the tenth…
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Today it is difficult to attract the curiosity of a jaded ordinary person to any project or event, unless it is at least a sensation or a scandal. However, as practice shows, our homegrown 'PR…