East Africa: How the Media Exposed East Africa's Worst Famine

Over lunch, I told John Amos (a famous African-American Hollywood actor) what I knew about the Turkana people (of northern Kenya) and about their never-ending struggle for survival in some of the harshest and most inhospitable terrain on the face of the earth. I told him about how the Turkana and their suffering had been ignored by successive governments since Independence, just as in colonial times.

"The Turkana are still dismissed as backward, and are viewed as a national embarrassment," I said, "when in reality," I added, "they rank among the toughest and most resilient people on the planet."

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