TONGŌŌCHIISYĒGOOP OGIEK(Ogiek Folktales)

Language is our identity as a community; it is the means through which our history, culture, customs, norms, and traditions are stored and transferred from one generation to the next. It is a tool to link, inform, educate, and inspire the future generation. Without language, then it means cultures and traditions related to a specific […]

Ogiek Community Bio-Cultural Protocol

Ogiek Community Bio-Cultural Protocol

Bio-cultural Community Protocols (BCPs) articulates community-determined values, procedures and priorities, and sets out community’s rights and responsibilities under customary, state and international law. It was developed after community consultative process to outline their core ecological, cultural, spiritual values, norms and customary laws relating to their Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (TK) and natural resources, based on which […]