Heavy trials

After nearly three weeks of shooting in Africa, I must admit that I'm really tired of being on alert all the time. The shooting conditions in term of safety are not really good. Today we nearly spent a whole day in Kibera again. It seems that all of our topics are related to it in one way or the other.

We spent a day with a main character of our "Albino Story" (working title;) - Gideon, who is the presenter of Pamoja Kibera Community Radio. Here below you can see me, while having a break over a cup of tee at Gideon's place.

You can see some of my equipment tagged on this blog's Facebook page.

Black magic related albino killings!

It's crazy around here! Just now some Kenyan people were stopped by the Police while trying to sell an albino, so parts of his body could have been used in magic rituals. You can read the story on BBC news page here.

We are also covering the story and tomorrow we are meeting with an Kenyan albino lawyer activist, who has been handling this case.

The witch-doctor that pay for the albino parts are the one that command Majinis - African demons that I wrote about earlier.

Yesterday we covered the Miraa market and as you can see on this frame from our footage, there is a lot of traffic out there.

Albino in Kibera

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, but there was no Internet connection unfortunately. Today it's back, but we are leaving for our slum shooting, so I will write just quickly that we met an albino living in a Kibera and we had a very interesting interview with him.