MARGOT KISER

Margot Kiser is a freelance writer whose writing skills are sharpened on geo-politics, wildlife conservation and culture. Her articles are featured in the Daily Beast as well as here. She divides her time between Nairobi and Lamu.

Below is a list of articles written by Margot Kiser

Pirate Management

Berbera Prison, Somaliland

Farah Ismael Idle strutted into the press-packed conference room with the insouciance of a celebrity. A white prayer cap complemented a prison jumpsuit in yellow, a colour that in Somaliland’s Hargeisa prison distinguishes him as a pirate from rank-and-file inmates, dressed in blue. Though he may in no way resemble the Johnny Depp of the blockbuster Pirates of the ...

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Art Forum

Lamu Landscape

Lamu Painters Festival—a funny idea realized


Artists at work outside in the elements are often—correctly—labelled ‘street artists’ and pass their time sketching kitsch for tourists in big cities. But nothing could be further from how Herbert Menzer, a wild and wacky German real estate developer/self-styled politician/friend to all, envisioned the first annual Lamu Painters Festival ...

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