Hello! I pray 2014 is panning out well for you. It’s a great year for me and I’m happy about how bright my future is. Something that has my juices excited is a road trip I will be taking later this year from Nairobi to Rio via East, Southern, Central and West Africa.
Hello and thanks for stopping by. This week’s wallpaper is a tribute to our athletes, who are responsible for many of us being asked if we can run whenever we introduce ourselves in a foreign country.
Hello! Sorry for being absent last week. 2014 has started off on a very busy note – which I thank God for. I had planned to take some time off work to study and sharpen my skills but work just seems to be coming in the way. I might just switch off my phone for …
Located on the eastern slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Lake Chala is a small crater lake that sits serenely on the Kenya-Tanzania border. You can easily access it from Moshi and Holili in Tanzania, and Oiloitoktok and Taveta in Kenya. Lake Chala Safari Camp overlooks it and provides the best place to stay while there. Don’t …
Turkana is a beautiful yet unforgiving place. The terrain will take your breath away, as well as your car’s shocks, springs and about any moving part. In the 1960s and 70s, teams the National Museums of Kenya were sent to explore the eastern shores of Lake Turkana in the best 4 X 4 X far. …
Located on the shores of Lake Victoria, Homa Bay is a town that has somehow managed to lag behind while the rest of the country moved ahead. So many years after independence, the tourism potential in this town remains untapped.
Hope you’re year is off to a bright start. This week’s wallpaper comes from the beautiful Bushara Island on Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda. It was shot in September 2013 during the #OnetouchLive photographic road trip from Nairobi to Bujumbura.
We’ve made it to the end of another year – thank You Father!! One of the big things I’ve done this year is start the African Screens Wallpaper series. I didn’t think it would take so much time and energy to do this but I’m glad it’s happening. It gives me great joy to see …
Many Nairobi dwellers are very predictable around this season: we will flock to the Kenyan coast in our thousands. North or South Coast, the beaches are full of Nairobi people wondering why its too crowded to enjoy the holiday. It’s time we broke away from tradition and visited more places on our continent. Get to …
What a long weekend we’ve had in Kenya! It’s now back to work with the rest of the world. To lift up your spirits, here’s this week’s wallpaper featuring Mt Ololokwe.
A few kilometres past Nanyuki on your way to Meru and Isiolo are some of the most scenic landscapes in Kenya. Landscapes so beautiful you can only take them in with your God-given lenses. These landscapes are characterised by wheat plantations that have a golden shimmer just before harvest time. The perfect source for this …
Nyungwe Forest is located in southwestern Rwanda towards the border with Burundi, and is one of the best protected forests in Africa. According to Wikipedia, Nyungwe contains 13 different primate species (25% of Africa’s total), 275 bird species, 1,068 plant species, 85 mammal species, 32 amphibian and 38 reptile species.
Hope your week is off to a great start. It’s a monumental year for Kenya as we celebrate 50 years of independence. There’s been mixed reactions to the progress we have had in half a century, but the undeniable fact is we may not be where we should be, but we are glad we aren’t where …
If you love touring Kenya like I do and haven’t been Turkana yet, I’d encourage you to get there – and by road. Flying there just doesn’t cut it. I returned to Nairobi last week after an 8-day expedition to northern Kenya that was primarily to see an eclipse that was literally overshadowed by the …
This week’s wallpaper is an image of a kingfisher that I shot in Lake Naivasha in 2012. It was early morning when I spotted it getting breakfast from a specific part of the lake, quite close to the shore. After studying its patterns, I positioned myself and waited for the shot. After a couple of …
This week’s wallpaper image was taken on the morning of 1st September 2013, just before the Onetouch team departed on a 17-day 4,000km photographic journey across East Africa. We will be sharing images from #OnetouchLive at an exhibition at Michael Joseph Centre from 13th to 22nd November. More about that later. In the meantime, as …
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. While a lot of communication is directed towards women, we men are also at risk. That is what the #WaridiMan campaign is all about. We need to ask questions, get answers and make decisions based on facts and not assumptions. We also need to stand in line with the …
The #OnetouchLive photographic road trip from Nairobi to Bujumbura covered over 4,000kms of East Africa’s beauty. On the day we clocked 1,000kms, we were in Uganda, on the way to Murchison Falls National Park from Kampala. The highway has little traffic and is paved with sweet tarmac all the way up to Masindi, where you …
When travelling across Eastern Africa during the #OnetouchLive photographic road trip from Nairobi to Bujumbura, we got many opportunities to compare Nairobi to other regional capitals. We got to discover a beauty of Kampala that we didn’t know existed. Wide tree-lined streets, impressive architecture and a vibrance that is second only to Nairobi’s. It’s traffic …
This week’s African Screens wallpaper is from a sunrise at the most beautiful place we stayed while on the #OnetouchLive photographic road trip from Nairobi to Bujumbura in September 2013. Nyungwe Forest Lodge is a place not to be missed when in Rwanda. Read about our experience there here. Leaving my comfortable bed after just …
