The Ogiek, an indigenous community in Kenya, found within the Mau Forest complex and Chepkitale forest in Mt Elgon are yet to receive their justice despite the winning Land Mark ruling in African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACtHPR) on 26th May 2017 against the Kenyan Government. It is almost exactly three years down the line, and […]
Ogiek celebrated 4th Annual Ogiek Cultural Day on August 23,2019 with calls to the government to safeguard their human rights as a bridge to preventing extinction of their language and culture. As an indigenous community faced with land tenure insecurities over their ancestral land in Mau, existence of Ogiek language, the community’s values, traditions and […]