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    Female Safari Guide: 'I Am A Lady But I Am Telling You, I Am Capable'

    If Lucy Nabiki Takona passes the silver guiding exam this month, she will be only the second Maasai woman to reach this level.
    by Ginanne Brownell Mitic Nov 23, 2017 3 minutes
    Lucy Nabiki Takona of the Maasai community is a female safari guide in a male-dominated profession. Men don't always think she can handle the job but she just forges ahead.

    Ever since Lucy Nabiki Takona was a young girl growing up in a village not far from the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya, she knew she wanted to have a career in education.

    So when her father told her at age 14 that she would have to drop out of school to marry the son of her father's friend, she ran away. It took her three days to walk through the bush to

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