Ngong Hills Forest Reserve

This guide to Ngong Hills Forest Reserve near Nairobi opens with the four peaks the Maasai named after a giant's knuckles, driven into the earth by a fall no one survived. It traces the oral folktale behind that image, and how Kenyan animator Kwame Nyong'o adapted it into a short film in 2011 about an ogre terrorizing a village until he falls for a young woman named Sanaiyan. You'll hear about the Kenyan cast and composer behind the film, and the festivals it reached far from the fireside where the story began. Look west from the ridge toward the drop into the Rift Valley as you listen.