Welcome to bluegecko.org - the website of writer and traveller, Jens Finke. Here you'll find an encyclopaedic multimedia website, the Traditional Music and Cultures of Kenya , which, although incomplete, already numbers over 500 pages, 235 images and 7 hours of full-length sound clips. Also online is a copy of Chasing the Lizard's Tail , describing a life-changing bicycle trip across the Sahara Desert, and selection of mostly abstract photographs at Planosphere.com .
Enjoy the site! Jens Finke, January 2013.
Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya Since the arrival of the Europeans in Kenya in the mid-nineteenth century, the traditional cultures of Kenya's tribes have been undergoing a period of massive - and often devastating - change. This website is a multimedia encyclopaedia dedicated to Kenya's people: twelve of a planned forty Kenyan tribes are currently covered in detail, each with extensive sections covering their history (both written and oral), society and customs, way of life, religion and cosmological