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For 13 years, the Indigenous Ogiek people have been embroiled in a legal battle with the Kenyan government for legal recognition of their rights to the Mau Forest, the largest remaining indigenous forest in the country. Now that the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered its reparation judgment last week in favor of […]
Mr. Kuria set out for the Mt. Kenya Summit Challenge at 3 am and later descended the mountain at 3 pm after reaching the Lenana point.
ABSTRACT: Two of Kenya’s few traditional communities, the Ogiek and the Sengwer, have for decades now been agitating, and even presently continue agitating to be allowed to enter and inhabit gazetted state forests (government forests) despite the protected status of these forests. They in their agitation claim an aboriginal “entitlement” to such habitation, which in this paper is referred to as “aboriginal habitation”. They argue that these forests are their traditional ancestral lands that were in the primordial to pre-colonial times inhabited by their long-departed ancestors. Thei...
Wangarĩ Maathai grows a movement Kenyan scientist and Nobel Prize winner fought for a better environment for African women. Wangari Maathai in 1992. Credit: Wendy Stone/Getty Images In 1977, more than 40 years before United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York unveiled the Green New Deal, which the New York Times in 2019 described as “a congressional resolution that lays out a grand plan for tackling climate change”, Wangarĩ Muta Maathai launched the Green Belt Movement (GBM), through the National Council of Women of Kenya. This International Women’s Day, w...