Epilogue
Ten years later,
The international press was touting Kenya as “the new California.” And wags were beginning to call the southernmost strip of South Coast “Silicon Diani.”
Over the last decade, animal migration routes had been progressively disrupted by human-animal conflict, but UN, USAID, and EU grant programs, collaborating with myriad NGOs, had funded projects by agrarian and environmental engineers to mitigate the impacts of rapid suburban and exurban development. Sadly, the rhinos were gone, and in Diani, the Colobus monkeys were only a memory.
Land prices in Naivasha, Kisumu, and Eldoret were skyrocketing as professionals employed in Nairobi sought countryfied homesteads from which they could, for the most part, telecommute.
Kenyan diplomats had been working closely wit
