KENYA-FISHING-LEATHER

An employee organises a stockpile of tanned and dried fish pelts at the Alisam Product Development, a mini tannery owned by Newton Owino, an industrial chemist, who uses organic bio-compounds for tanning, "naturally derived from indigenous plant species", he says, at the Mamboleo suburb, at the lakeside town of Kisumu, in western Kenya. - Owino derives the ingredients in the chemicals he uses for tanning and the processing of the skin of fresh water fish from the Lake Victoria known as Nile Perch, from which he then fashions a range of products including leather jackets, bags, shoes, wallets, caps, purses, sandals and belts. (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)