Curio Shops

All the major highways and park gates in both countries we visited are littered with curio shops. They typically resemble the nondescript building below, made of sheet metal or whatever else is at hand. There's usually a few people waiting around outside for the next tourist van and sometimes a selection of shields/blankets. They also offer the cleanest bathrooms you are likely to find on the roads and the best place for your drivers to catch a late breakfast if they had too early a start for a proper one.
Inside they are a wonderland of spectacular art. Tragically the most beautiful pieces are also the least likely to ever make it home... although every place advertises shipping. The cost for an 8ft maasai warrior is going to be prohibitive, and once you get home its a hard thing to find a spot for, especially in Vancouver.
Most of the curio shops are a collective of local artists and there are often people in the shop doing work. This fellow was making rosewood hippos and Kathryn bought one of his unfinished ones since she liked the smell of the wood and the finished ones had a lacquer on them. These places are always fun to visit as the prices are more suggestions than final and you can haggle until you come to a price everyone is happy with. In my first time I got a mask down from 30000 shillings to 300 and still probably overpaid; the key seems to be finding a price where everyone is smug about the deal they just made.