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"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
2) Integrated assessment results to support policy decisions in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
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The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) is charged with balancing the needs of Maasai inhabitants and their livestock, as well as the wildlife for which Ngorongoro Conservation area (NCA) is renowned, and the tourism industry that the wildlife supports. Thus, management of NCA represents a unique and important experiment in balancing multiple uses that has continued for more than 40 years.
3) Imani's moon
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Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
8) Imani's moon
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Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
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Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe and their friends embark on an exciting counting adventure through the grasslands of Tanzania, discovering all different kinds of African animals as they count from one to ten. Includes facts about Tanzania and information about each animal, the Masai people and the Swahili language.
11) The orphan boy
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Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.
14) Hell's gate
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Mollel has been banished from Nairobi, Kenya's bustling metropolis, to a small, fly-blown town on the edge of a national park. His career, he thinks, has taken a nosedive. His colleagues are a close-knit group and they have not taken kindly to a stranger in their midst. When the body of a flower worker turns up in the local lake, he begins to wonder if they might be involved in something disturbing.
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"White Roses interlaces the stories of two women - Erica, a New Yorker whose lover, Cal and EMT, was killed in the World Trade Center attack and Rose, a Maasai raised in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Craving a deeper knowledge of the man she loved, Erica flies to Tanzania to meet his Peace Corps friends and experience the exotic countryside he loved. But as Erica begins retracing Cal's steps she becomes aware that someone is tracking her as well....
19) Masai and I
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Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai.
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In Nairobi's Uhuru Park, the police have recovered the body of a local prostitute. Detective Mollel, himself a former Maasai warrior, is assigned to the case. Like all great heroes in crime fiction, Mollel is complicated, even flawed. As Mollel pursues the death of the prostitute, he begins to suspect something far more extensive than an ordinary murder.