Mara Mobile Veterinary Unit

Category: Life of a Vet | Date: Feb 25 2007 | By: admin

Thanks again for Earthview Ltd for lending us the radio for this trip. The idea of the radio was to be connected to the Maasai community scouts scattered along the escarpment. There was one problem. The setting of my radio was on ‘community’ frequency. After some static sounds, I hear the conversation between two men.

‘Sopa’
‘Sopa oleng’
‘Koree lomon‘
‘Maata‘

No one speaks Swahili on this line. They all speak Maa (Maasai. Language). I do understand some of the vocabularies and simple quotes in Maa, but nothing close to being able to fully communicate in Maa. Another problem with the radio was that scouts only switched on their radio when they want to talk to someone. Evidently, their radio is not necessary switched on when you want to reach them.