TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PETER MARTELL
A Kenyan woman takes on January 10, 2012 a photo of a giraffe using her mobile telephone at the Giraffe Center in Nairobi. Going on safari — meaning simply “travel” in east Africa’s Swahili language — was once seen as a white colonial preserve. Things have changed. Thanks to a burgeoning middle class, almost two-thirds of visitors are now Kenyans. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)