They don’t feel the cold, for they are not crossing anywhere in this city to endure the severe chilly mornings. It’s August and there is no doubt that the cold stops for breakfast in Nairobi, a month that thousands of wildebeests and zebra cross the open plains of Serengeti and the Mara.
It is not only the crocodiles that celebrate this one cross of the Grumenti River, but Google does too. It honors this by featuring a migration doodle on its Kenyan homepage google.co.ke created by Samuel Githu, the first Kenyan guest artist to collaborate with them.
Samuel artistic piece is featured at a prime time, a time when the wildebeests and zebras migrate to greener pastures to fill their tummies as season changes. On the other hand, they patiently wait choking on their own saliva, the predators wait to strike and take advantage of this migration.
The doodle decorates the Google’s logo, over the years doodles have been used to match the company with specific events, anniversaries and science. Google homepage customization started in 1999 by Dennis Hwang, a 29 year old who referred to his artistic art as “doodles”.
