William Rubel

11/08/2023

As of this writing, August, 2023, Idris is collecting seeds for trees and is planting in preparation for the October rainy season. Current seedling quantities are are limited by water. Examples of seedlings in stock for the upcoming rainy season" 200 avacado 100 mango 250 Kayapa (tree used for fencing) 70 Local mahogany 150 Lmarggwet (cottonwood) 150 black passion fruit…...

As of this writing, August, 2023, Idris is collecting seeds for trees and is planting in preparation for the October rainy season. Current seedling quantities are are limited by water. Examples of …

08/08/2023

Idris Lekaria, director of the Memita Disables Tree Nursery and Creativity Center in Wamba, Kenya, announces the opening of a school for young children in a village remote from a school. The teachers are trained teachers, but without work. The students are hungry, so the school will both provide education and food. If you would like to assist financially with this project, please use the contact form. Thank you.

Idris Lekaria, director of the Memita Disables Tree Nursery and Creativity Center in Wamba, Kenya, announces the opening of a school for young children in a village remote from a school. The teache…

08/08/2023

Idris Lekaria, Director of the Memita Disables Tree Nursery is pleased to announce that his nursery has been contracted to assist schools in the region to plant trees in accordance with the government's commitment to afforestation. He will be supplying 50 trees each to schools in the Wamba Region.

Idris Lekaria, Director of the Memita Disables Tree Nursery is pleased to announce that his nursery has been contracted to assist schools in the region to plant trees in accordance with the governm…

19/07/2023

Making clay projects on Clay Monday at Augustine's School, Wamba, Kenya.

Monday is clay day at Augustine’s School. Just below where the school is located there is a deep erosion gully that makes a layer of black clay easy to get. All the kids go to the gully to ge…

18/07/2023

Augustine's School

Augustine’s School is located on the outskirts of Wamba, Kenya within the Blacksmithing Clan’s District. The school daily serves 40 students ranging in age from 3 to 8. Carol Fabert, a …

17/07/2023

Idris Lekaria's Melita Disables Tree Nursery, Wamba, Kenya

Idris Lekaria, horticulturalist, is the founding director of the Melita Disables Tree Nursery, in Wamba, Kenya, is the only nursery in Samburu East. As a nursery specializing in trees, its primary …

03/07/2023

This is a draft definition from my Samburu Research dictionary of culinary taste and texture terns. Kadadai, adj. Dilute almost to the point of absolute tastelessness. 1:5 Milk to water is kadadai. Applies to anything that is so dilute there is basically no nutritional value in the dish. For example, a watery porridge or a “meat” soup in which the meat content is so small it is basically not there. Past kadadai, the dilution is ulaash.

This is a draft definition from my Samburu Research dictionary of culinary taste and texture terns. Kadadai, adj. Dilute almost to the point of absolute tastelessness. 1:5 Milk to water is kadadai.…

02/07/2023

The Thief's Hand, a story told by Donald Zakao, known in Wamba, Kenya, as "Babu."

Babu, whose given name is Donald Zakao, is a storyteller living in Wamba, Kenya. Babu means “grandfather.” Donald has been called “Babu” since he was four years old. A gifted story teller, “The Thi…

02/07/2023

A lmala being cleaned with a cloth by my friend's wife in 2018.

This wooden hand carved lmala, milking container, has just been sterilized with burning sticks. What we see here is the process in which the container is wiped to eliminate embers and ash. The Samb…

02/07/2023

A collection if images of a Samburu woman cleaning a gourd lmala with a burning stick. This was filmed in 2018 near Wamba, Kenya.

Burning stick inside lmala. Adding a little water. Stirring, breaking off embers from burning stick into the lmala. The aromatic stick has been re-ignited in the fire and is now being thrust into t…

02/07/2023

Lmala, Samburu milking containers being used, and unfinished.

One gourd lama, others made of wood. The lid on this wooden lmala is very thin. On its own, an elegant piece of carving. The cap is used as a cup. Lmala in process by a woman who specializes in woo…

01/07/2023

It is the wood that is burned inside the wooden milking containers the lmala, that imparts a large part of the taste and aroma of Samburu smoke cured fermented milk....

It is the wood that is burned inside the wooden milking containers the lmala, that imparts a large part of the taste and aroma of Samburu smoke cured fermented milk.

30/06/2023

Here is the pdf for the Samburu - English travel dictionary written by Carol Fabert.

Carol Fabert working with Benjamin on this dictionary at the compound of blacksmith Augustine Leboiyere Download the Samburu/English Travel Dictionary. This Samburu-English travel dictionary was wr…

29/06/2023

Lmala, Lmasin (pl) Most people translate the milking containers into the English, "calabash." While there are a couple milking containers that are made from gourds, most are made from carved wood. There are a little more than twenty shapes for lmala the are still in common use. There may be some containers that no longer exist as the increasingly severe and frequent droughts, beginning in the early 1970s, has decimated the herds of cows....

Lmala, Lmasin (pl) Most people translate the milking containers into the English, “calabash.” While there are a couple milking containers that are made from gourds, most are made from c…

15/11/2022