By Tiffany Molina
Beymer-Farris and a friend tote firewood through the Tanzanian jungle.
“Nchi ya Amani” means the country of peace in Swahili and is used to refer to the African country of Tanzania, a highly biodiverse nation that houses one of the natural wonders of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater. It is no wonder that University of Kentucky Assistant Professor of Geography Betsy Beymer-Farris fell in love with Tanzania when she first visited during her undergraduate career at Wittenberg University.
Before her first trip to Tanzania, Beymer-Farris, a first-generation scholar, had never traveled outside the U.S. “My first experience in Tanzania was 17 years ago. I did undergraduate research and lived in the country, and fell in love with it,” Beymer-Farris said.
“It’s incredibly beautiful, it has