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