The Maasai Cricket Warriors

Photographer Carl De Souza documented this group of young Maasai warriors from the Laikipia region in Kenya who've formed a cricket team. Captained by 26 year old Nissan Jonathan Ole Meshami, the team are fundraising to travel to South Africa inorder to take part in the Last Man Stands World Championships. Alongside promoting healthy living, spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS and women's issues, the team aspire to become role models in their community and ambassadors for both the Maasai and Kenya.


Edit: You can donate to this cause here: www.justgiving.com/MaasaiCricketWarriors
The Last Man Stands World Championships is an annual international tournament, this year it is held in Cape Town, commencing on the 31st March till 7th April. 'It consists of amateur teams from around the world playing several T20 group matches, followed by a knockout stage and a final. LMS offers a first prize of US$10,000, receives considerable media exposure' (1)

(1) maasaicricketwarriors.bellstrike.com
Source: The Atlantic: InFocus

Lessons of Darkness | Lektionen in Finsternis: Part III

Swirling helicopter footage of the cataclysmic, post-apocalyptic and ravaged, oil-soaked Kuwait landscape, with Herzog's sparse and poetic narrative which provides no geopolitical context whatsoever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness

View Part I and Part II

Interestingly in early 2006 while Herzog was giving an interview to Mark Kermode for the BBC, an unknown individual shot Herzog with an air rifle during filming. Herzog continued the interview and later when showing his wound on camera, and calmly remarked, "It is not a significant bullet." [1]

Lessons of Darkness | Lektionen in Finsternis: Part II

Lessons of Darkness, 1992. Directed by Werner Herzog. View Part I here