The rangelands root · 2019 – 2022
Kenya
Laikipia · Samburu · Isiolo
The Ewaso Ng'iro corridor: a research-action posting that became a long relationship - of fieldwork, music and friendship - and one I still return to.
I am not from Kenya.
But for several years the Ewaso Ng'iro corridor has been a place of work, a home part of the year, a landscape I have evaluated professionally, that I write about, and that I stay connected to through music, infrastructure and friendship.
What took root here
From research-action to music
2019 – 2022 · Wyss Academy
Senior Regional Advisor
Building the East Africa hub. Land governance, dryland management, pastoral systems and wildlife-livestock coexistence - transhumance corridors and resource inventories with Kenya's National Land Commission.
Consultancy · USAID
Community conservancies
Lead consultant for USAID on the evaluation of community conservancies across Laikipia, Samburu and Isiolo - how drought, governance and pastoral mobility interact under climate stress.
Studio · SomOne Music
The studio & the artists
The BBZU mobile studio settles in the region, and I produce local artists - Titoh Star, Sammy Ramaz.
Writing
The novel, and the next
It is in these years that my first novel comes out - and that the second begins, set precisely in the drylands of the corridor.
Field expertise
An intention
Savannah Express
The hope of returning to tell a climate story there, with a mobile studio and young artists from the region. An intention taking shape - not yet a promise.
Learn more →The seed moves on
Towards Senegal
From Kenya, the family and the studio take to the road towards the red earth of Senegal - the current anchor, where every thread is tied in one place.