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...1990s, you might have seen a slender American woman wandering around the shanties, where nearly a million people live with minimal water supply amid puddles of raw sewage. The visitor was Lana Wong, a Harvard-educated fine-art photographer, who had come to Mathare with one aim: to teach teenagers how to shoot photographs. "I picked 31 kids, and handed them plastic $30 cameras and a roll of film each," says Wong. "I wanted them to tell their own stories, rather than have me intervene. Most of them had never seen a camera...
...London, where he is studying broadcasting and filmmaking at the University of the Arts. Njuguna is now a news photographer for The Nation newspaper in Nairobi. And Mwelu shoots photographs for United Nations agencies in Kenya. In recent months he has begun his own project, the Mwelu Foundation, to teach photography to a new generation of slum youth. "Photography changed my life," he says...
...reaction to hearing my name. But for the next 15 minutes he was a model of courtesy and patience, calling me "Danny" five or six times and signing off with a gentle, "All the best, kid." In both instances, it occurred to me later, Gibson was trying to teach me something: don't open your mouth until you know what you want to say. And, when you fall down, get back up - people will respect...
...they do it their own way. Their recent CD and DVD hits--2005's Here Come the ABCs and 2008's Here Come the 123s--deal with stuff that could not be more basic, but they do so in a decidedly unbasic way. There aren't many musicians who teach the concept of the number seven with a song about a gang of sevens invading a home and demanding cake. Think that's too edgy for your kids? Show it to them once--and then see if you can pull them away...
...Robert Thurman, an expert in Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University who knows the Dalai Lama well, has had repeated contact with the Karmapa and will soon publish a book titled Why the Dalai Lama Matters, worries that "if [the Karmapa] is pressured by devotees to travel and teach too much at too young an age at the expense of his studies," it could prevent him from "manifesting his full strength." But if he is allowed to mature, says Thurman, "50 years from now my son may have to write a book saying Why the Karmapa Matters...