Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Wednesday lunch lectures on Kenya

Kenya Study Abroad Lunch Lectures
Wednesdays 12:00-12:30, February 7-March 13,
1110 Symons Hall, Zoom - https://umd.zoom.us/s/2676904634

Dale Johnson, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Lectures will cover details of the Kenya Study Abroad Program as well as various topics on agriculture, wildlife, and living in Kenya. Lectures are independent of each other so participants are welcome to one or all. A few of the lecture topics:

 Bananas, mangos, papaya and what the hell?
 Lifesaving sand dams
 Subsistence farming
 Surviving leopard and rhinoceros attacks
 Drought, poverty, and religion
 Snows of Kilimanjaro and Francis Macomber
 Tea
 Army ants and termite mounds.
 Smuggling bones and hyena poop into the U.S.
 Salvation of education
 Amboseli, Nakuru, Oloonongot, Kakamega, Naivasha, Tsavo
 Maasai
 Giraffes, elephants, impalas, lions, hippos, zebras, gazelles, cheetahs, buffalo, monkeys, birds, & the lowly wildebeest.

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