Babybacking

As a Texan, I'm well aware of the term "bareback" in reference to riding horses, and "babyback" when eating cows. Here in Kenya, however, "babybacking" is more common than backpacking. Oftentimes, women come to meetings or work in the fields bearing their children on their back. Almost always the kid is dressed as if it were snowing outside, knocked out and bound tightly to his/her mother. Nonetheless, the mothers and babies are as one in a beautiful, symbiotic? relationship.

Below is my Ode to Babybacking.