The love for beads, and a sage talking to stars open Samburu culture
Rhodia Mann and her Samburu ‘mother’. Photo/David Beatty
Two things happened when Rhodia Mann was nine years old. One, her father took her to northern Kenya, which in the 1950s was closed to the outside world; and two, she went on holiday to Zanzibar, where crawling on the beach, she found her first treasure — a handful of beads.
“They were incredible,” she says, handing them to me in her living room, where her collections from Asia and Africa are displayed.
