Last week, Lupita Nyong’o swept into town, fresh from the Mara, with elephants in the air in the Villa Kempinski room where she held a press conference to announce that, going forward, she was a WildAid ambassador and was working to save the majestic pachyderms.
Wildlife in Kenya means tourism money which translates into employment, especially for the youth, and that’s good. The downside of dead pachyderms and unemployment is idle youth, who can be radicalised by extremists, causing insecurity, a drop off in tourism, and a literally vicious cycle of fear, poverty and loathing, in the Mara and everywhere.