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DESIGNER JEWELRY
Rhodia Mann is internationally known as a designer of exclusive one-of-a-kind necklaces. She has travelled the world from A to Z (Afghanistan to Zanzibar!) for thirty years, collecting rare and unusual beads. She lectures on the history of beads in Africa. She has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. Rhodia has had twenty One-Woman shows right here in Kenya! She has been written up in the New York Times and in America's prestigious "Ornament" magazine. Read more... |
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TALK TO THE STARS
Rhodia's quest to understand and record Samburu culture before it disappears has led her into many unusual adventures. In her small and battered Suzuki, she has traversed the 8,000 square miles of Samburuland a thousand times. The outer journeys - as well as the inner one - took her over twenty years, whilst she gradually gained the respect and trust of a shy and reticent people. Healing arts, divination techniques, sacred places and esoteric knowledge were revealed to her - one tiny fact at a time. It took years and years of patient listening, observing and questioning before these tidbits of privileged information became a book. Read more... |
Designer Jewelry 
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