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Camels Plod to New Glory; Africa Experts Praise Their Big, Soft Feet
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Its hide feels like an old shoe brush, its rubbery hump wobbles
like a loose tire and it often breaks into a galumphing jig at the
sound of a drum.
As well it might. The camel, soft-footed sedan of the desert
sand, is back in favor. Once scorned by western development experts
as the embodiment of all that was wrong with Third World technology,
it is being rediscovered here in Kenya's arid north by a new
generation of planners. They say it is the answer to one of Africa's
most vexing problems: dying land.
Across the continent, miles of drought-prone grassland are
grinding to dust under the ...
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