Songs and lively dance steps comprise a ritual that makes dull, thankless farm work easier in rural Kenya. These Kamba people perform the ritual in the name of "Harambee," the late President Jomo Kenyatta's self-help theory for rural development. The Agency for International Development has funded a marginal lands survey that will instruct farmers on which crops will grow best in these dry and semi-dry area.

Photo is dated 1978.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.