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Nonfiction Matters  From Jackson, the Maasai with a laptop  Here
is Jackson’s first response. If you (and any kids you work with)
have questions for him, post them as comments and I will send
them on, and post the answers here:  I Jackson, a maasai by
tribe depend on cattle for food, mostly I eat meat and drink
milk and blood. Following the influence and interaction with
other people in the Camp in the masai mara, I now eat some
vegetables and cereals.  The cattle I herd are domestic hence
not part of wildlife. My father is very different from me. He
never went to school and can only speak maasai language. He
doesn’t eat most of the modern foods apart from beef, milk, and
blood and drinks soup from medicinal herbs. His job is to look
after cattle. He is fully attached to maasai traditions.
Jackson, who is a Safari guide in the mara, is falling between
his father life and modern civilization, two different worlds.
1. Jeannine Atkins says:      Thank