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Friday, July 27, 2007

Kenyan carvers do the Simpsons

Abagusii tribespeople in the remote village of Tabaka in Kisii, Kenya, have a contract to carve busts of Simpsons figurines using ages-old traditional techniques. The contract pays six times their usual carving rate -- and the busts will be sold in British shops called Craft Village UK.

The Tabaka Classic Carvers are licensed to produce 12 models of the show's characters, and they are keen to expand their portfolio.
Pauline Kemunto and her husband work with the Simpsons team in Tabaka; he carves the figures and she smoothes the soapstone afterwards
"I don't know who they are," she says about the dysfunctional cartoon family.
"But I like them because I earn from them."

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