https://www.scmp.com/rss/509467/feed Kang-Chun Cheng is a freelance photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her training as an ecologist, with a focus on community-based natural resource management and traditional ecological knowledge, informs and enhances her perspectives as a visual storyteller. Her work has appeared in Earth Island Journal, Yes! Magazine, China Africa Project, and Popula. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The view from Point Lenana – one of several peaks on Mount Kenya and the highest that can be reached by trekking alone – seems perfect, quite literally above it all, as the soft light of dawn breaks over craggy peaks and still glacial lakes. We are lucky; there are no large parties or school groups sharing this 4,985-metre-high (16,060ft-high) vantage point this morning, but with the wind whipping through our layers, it is practically too cold to talk. “You don’t want to stay up here too much... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3243733/why-africas-mount-kenya-risks-becoming-polluted-kilimanjaro-access-its-peaks-made-easier-visitors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3243733/why-africas-mount-kenya-risks-becoming-polluted-kilimanjaro-access-its-peaks-made-easier-visitors?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:15:15 +0000 For the third time since 2020, the Migration Gravel Race (MGR), a four-day bicycle competition that weaves across Kenya’s Masai Mara – savannah wilderness best known for its wildlife migrations and safaris – was held in late June 2023. Although many of the 108 competitors (86 men, 22 women) were Caucasian, the 10-strong Team Amani – East Africa’s premier gravel-racing team and one that provides opportunities to cyclists from the region – was the host of the race. And for the first time, the MGR... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3227938/first-asian-cyclists-compete-kenyas-migration-gravel-race-impressed-set-and-maasai-peoples-welcome?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3227938/first-asian-cyclists-compete-kenyas-migration-gravel-race-impressed-set-and-maasai-peoples-welcome?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:15:08 +0000 In Baricho, a town nestled in central Kenya’s lush Kirinyaga County, 48-year-old farmer Joel Mukungi surveys his three-quarters of an acre (0.3 hectares) of French beans, voluminous but drooping in the desiccating heat. While Kenya’s highlands have been commercialised since before the country’s independence from Britain in 1963, and agriculture accounts for more than half of the East African nation’s employment, Mukungi’s lifelong work hasn’t changed much. It is still mostly hard, manual labour,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3177581/how-chinese-phones-hardware-and-software-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3177581/how-chinese-phones-hardware-and-software-are?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 May 2022 04:15:11 +0000 On a Monday morning at Feng Sheng Meat Shop, located in one of many Chinatowns in Nairobi, Kenya, everyone wants the attention of Dr. Lu. The affable proprietor of the Asian grocery store can periodically be seen fidgeting two black walnuts in his left hand as he instructs his employees and greets customers. A farmer from Nyeri, about a three-hour drive from Nairobi, arrives bearing several crates of fresh chicken feet. He makes the trip nearly every week and has supplied this shop for nearly... https://www.scmp.com/identity/china-kenya-community/article/3127469?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/identity/china-kenya-community/article/3127469?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:55:57 +0000