Change of address due to drought (Kenya)

This episode begins on the banks of the River Tana, whose source lies on Mount Kenya and which flows into the Indian Ocean. Geoffroy and Loïc go there to find out how two communities¾settled farmers and semi-nomadic herdsmen¾live together and share the same water resource: the river. Despite abundant resources¾the river water and fertile farming land¾the two communities are stricken with food shortages. The causes of this evil seem to be inextricably entangled between a State that is incapable of coming to the assistance of its people, continuous droughts and farmers and herdsmen who are without means and impotent in the face of the new reality of globalisation. To avoid death by starvation, these peoples are forced to seek refuge in the city, leaving behind them an abundant and unexploited resource. Our two brother adventurers continue their journey in Kenya where they arrive in Nairobi, the country’s capital and home to more than 140 shantytowns. Kibera is the biggest shantytown in Africa with a population density ten times greater than that of Paris. In these neighbourhoods built of sheet metal and tin cans, they meet migrants fleeing the countryside in the hope of having more than one meal a day. With the aid of an NGO Geoffroy and Loïc enter this lawless zone. Women show them how they have organised to have food to eat and to offer a better future to their offspring. They then continue their way to the North, toward Lake Turkana where Gabbra livestock breeders are struggling with drought and over-grazing to stay where they were born and not have to change their address to the city.