Emmanuel Mosha

Emmanuel is from the Kilimanjaro region where he was born and brought up. His father was a businessman and his mother was a teacher, and Emmanuel studied at a mission school. Originally, he planned to enter the priesthood but something changed his mind and he ended up training as a teacher. But he worried about his prospects in that profession and a friend who was in the safari world, suggested that perhaps he might be able to teach in a different way. As his latent safari lessons at school where they taught about acceleration, and as an example, a picture of a cheetah was stuck on the wall. Every day he saw that picture and wondered about it. Perhaps that was the trigger to his future career?

There was no instant transformation to become a guide, though, and Emmanuel put himself to work as a waiter, and studied for a year at the Mt Meru School, read all the books he could find and went on all the guide training that Nomad offered. He found he was naturally interested in, and good with, people and his curiosity about the natural world drove him to learn more. Even now he says that the thing he most enjoys about his work is that he is constantly learning, both from the many different people from all walks of life that he meets. He is both a teacher and a student these days. Emmamuel’s special place is Katavi which he describes as an area of undiscovered potential