Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Wild life | 5 April 2018

My neighbour Erupe, a humble Kenyan smallholder, has been destroyed by his fellow countrymen

issue 07 April 2018

Laikipia, Kenya

Erupe is a Kenyan farmer. He owns a smallholding of a few acres not far from my own place. When we meet our talk is usually about the vagaries that preoccupy farmers: crops, rain, livestock diseases and market prices. On his little patch he built a dwelling from mud and wattle with a corrugated iron roof.
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