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A Kenyan Teen's Discovery By Nina Gregory

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A Kenyan Teen’s Discovery by Nina Gregory discusses Richard Turere, a 13-year-old kid from Kenya, and his solution to a common problem that affects livestock. The problem is that the lions in his village in Kenya eat and kill the people’s livestock. The people’s solution was to just kill the lions, but that led to the lion species almost being extinct in Kenya. To create a better solution to this problem, Turere came up with an invention that imitated human movement to scare away the lions. This invention would later become a success. Richard Turere made a moral and intellectual risk. For being so young, people could have shamed him and disapproved of his idea, especially his parents. He also decided to take the risk of completing the challenge
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