Sure, it's tough to earn a living as an artist. But it helps if your materials don't cost a lot. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, several of the Kenyan craftspeople work wonders with discarded ...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The colorful handmade giraffes, elephants and warthogs made in a Nairobi workshop were once only dirty pieces of rubber floating on the Indian Ocean's currents. Kenya's Ocean Sole ...
These zebras and model Land Rover are from UniquEco, a Kenyan nonprofit organization that creates toys, jewelry, and other items from old flip flops and other non-biodegradable waste—the trash is ...
The Flipflopi Project was co-founded by Kenyan tour operator Ben Morison in 2016, and the ground-breaking dhow was built by master craftsmen Ali Skanda, and a team of volunteers using 10,000 tonnes of ...