
A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migration in Turkana – Tristan McConnell
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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A Kenyan's Journey to the Lost Land of Calico
Foura, half way up the western shore of lake decana is on the edge of a broad, shallow inlet known as ferguson's gulf. Seemingly all day, trucks ferry goods into the town's array of general stores, or clatter out loaded with fish drawn from the lake. In the 19 seventies, the norwegian government funded a state of the artfish processing, freezing and packing cility intended to expand the regional industry. But erratic and expensive electricity and to kana's remoteness from kenya's biggest markets meant it soon founded and was abandoned. To kana's fishermen shrugged off this failed and unwonted intervention, local technology ab
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