By Damaris Lenantare (Rendille, CS Journalism Fellow)
For pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya, livestock is everything. It is more than a source of livelihood; it is a means of survival.
By Damaris Lenantare (Rendille, CS Journalism Fellow)
For pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya, livestock is everything. It is more than a source of livelihood; it is a means of survival.
Rendille Indigenous Community Faces Growing Water Crisis as Climate Change Intensifies Drought
By Damaris Lenantare (Rendille, CS Journalism Fellow)
By Shimron Kiptoo (Ogiek), Assistant Project officer, Chepkitale Indigenous People Development Project/Tulwoob Koony Radio, Kenya
By Damaris Lenantare (Rendille, CS Journalism Fellow)
In Marsabit’s vast Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL), a land of great beauty, a quiet crisis is unfolding in Kenya. Repeated failed rainy seasons are pushing Indigenous pastoralist communities to the limits of their resilience.
An investigation into how unregulated sand extraction is draining water sources and reshaping pastoral life in Kenya’s drylands.
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Fellow)
At sunrise along the Olkeriai River in Mashuuru, Kajiado County, the riverbed no longer looks like a waterway. Instead, it looks like an open quarry: scarred, excavated, and restless.
By Omar Challah, Executive Director, Jamii Action Centre (JAC)
Jamii Action Centre has launched JAC FM, a community-owned radio station in Kwale County, Kenya. With this new station, we’re advancing efforts towards providing a platform for the Mijikenda People, a group that has been historically underrepresented in mainstream media.
Mussa Juma Siwayombe, Executive Director
A media-based campaign spearheaded by the Media Aid for Indigenous and Pastoralists Community (MAIPAC) is making strides in raising awareness about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania's Longido District. The project, supported by Cultural Survival, is using radio programs, video documentaries, and social media to advocate for the abandonment of the practice and protect the well-being of young girls in Maasai communities.
By Titus N’getuny, Communication Officer, Endorois Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (EIWEN)
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
A landmark land victory in Kenya becomes a global lesson in evidence-based advocacy, intergenerational wisdom, and resistance with vision.
By Lucas Kasosi (Maasai, CS Intern)
“Our Elders hunted lions to protect our herds. Today, we are hunting for something else, plastic. It doesn’t roar, but it’s killing our way of life.”
— Ipato Kenta, Founder of Tembea Make An Impact
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
