The Maasai Go Mobile - An African Journey With Jonathan Dimbleby - BBC Two

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On the second leg of his illuminating journey across Africa, Jonathan Dimbleby travels 2000 miles through East Africa's Rift Valley.

Starting in Ethiopia where he was the first journalist to report the 1973 famine, Dimbleby discovers the great strides being made to safeguard the country from future catastrophes.

In Kenya he finds out how mobile phones are revolutionising small businesses and even the lives of Maasai tribes.

In Tanzania he joins in a football match with the judges and guards of Africa's own Human Rights Commission and meets the street kids in Dar-es-Salaam who are building an international profile for their music.

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[Prof16440]

i'm surprised at how good his english was he should come to london and teach all these kids the right way to speak

[aawsome69]

last remaining tribes are getting technology...very soon it will all be history

[timszon]

I wish I can meet Jonathan In person and shake his hand.

He is a great guy and that's my opinion

[munaabdi92]

Last year when i was in tanzania i meet some maasai people, i give one off them 2 dollars nd he start crying.

[scooterkillz]

when i was young me and my friends got chaced by maasai's because we went deep into the forest and were playing with the river! , i was so scared

[ashrafilm]

even out of abject poverty, these good people appreciate the simplest things in life, we are very very decadent in the west. the masai are the total opposite of the way they have been negatively portrayed in the news.

[Ginjuiceify]

I'll have a story to tell one day

[gregorpdthomas]

@Prof16440 do note that many african countries' first language is english :).

and i know exactly what you mean, i.e. "yeas awrite, bruv?" or "yeaa mann, that was well wicked..."

the lack of proper use of their first language truly does infuriate me. oh, well.

[ezaz8]

Oh, and they spelt Maasai wrong (extra 'a')!

[ezaz8]

@Paulina86 yup they will have a solar powered unit (probably one per community) that they all use. The vast majority of women don't have mobiles though.

When I was living with them last summer they always used our battery at camp and drained it lol

[Paulina86]

How they charge these mobiles? They're solar-powered?

[ECTBWHO]

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