A trip north
The cost of drought
Drought has its winners and losers.
The winners are few but easy to spot: hawks and vultures cutting circles in a white-hot sky while scavenging dogs pick through the rocks below.
Then there’s everyone else. A somber, silent mass of livestock, wildlife, and people move through their daily routines, bones growing sharper, tissue collapsing in slow motion.
In the past three years, northern Kenya has weathered five failed seasons of rain. When I think about drought, I assume thirst is...
