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Stephen Kibaki

Stephen Kibaki walks through his family’s farm just outside Nairobi National Park in Kenya. Goats, cows, and sheep graze peacefully in the pasture. In the park nearby, lions roam, living in peaceful coexistence with the farm. It’s 30 ______ to be an extraordinary picture for many places in Africa.

“I love lions,” Stephen 31 ______ the journalist. “If my cows are protected and they’re safe, we can live with the lions without any problem.”

How do cattle 32 ______ to live safely near these huge predators? It’s all due to this young man’s brilliant invention. When he was 11, he created Lion Lights, a clever way of keeping his family’s livestock safe.

First, there seemed to be no good 33 ______ to the problem, but Stephen started experimenting with ways to scare off the predators. He tried to use fire and a scarecrow. His first two 34 ______ were unsuccessful: the lions were too clever to be fooled by either. But one night he was walking around the pasture with a flashlight and noticed that lions stayed away. That’s when he 35 ______: these big cats were afraid of moving lights!

Then Stephen 36 ______ a system of flashing LED light bulbs on poles around the perimeter of the pasture. The blinking lights tricked the lions into thinking the grounds were patrolled. That finally kept the lions away.