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Some of the people behind Animal Kingdom are as charismatic as the beasties on show. Rohde, 42, an intensely jaunty adventurer with a silent-movie villain's mustache and enough gigantic native earrings dangling from his left lobe to fill a display case in a Nairobi Tiffany's, is a fine artist whose drawings from his world travels cued many of the park's lustrous images...
Asani says he had a comfortable middle-class upbringing in Nairobi, which was racially stratified under British rule. His father was an accountant, and his mother worked for East African, later Kenyan Airways...
...sense of helplessness. "I remember someone saying, 'Don't worry. Jill is here,'" she says. "But I still couldn't do anything." In fact, she was trying to do just about everything. "She didn't just treat patients," says Marilyn McHarg, the current country manager for MSF-Holland in Nairobi. "She designed the protocols and the system for the treatment...
With the crisis beginning to come under control, relief agencies headquartered in Nairobi began to rethink their role in Sudan, favoring a hands-off approach aimed at getting the Sudanese to develop their own medical capabilities. Seaman was criticized in some quarters for being too hands-on, for doing too much. Hesselink says Seaman faced a mini-revolt in 1995-96 when some colleagues insisted that she see patients only during normal working hours or risk being sent home on the next plane. An MSF bureaucrat who replaced Hesselink as MSF's country director briefly banished Seaman to languish...
...without hospitalization--an option that, because of the large numbers infected, is out of the question. It is the kind of impossible field-medical problem that is tailor-made for Jill Seaman, and she has already indicated that she would like to get involved--if the decision makers in Nairobi...