It is the same situation in India same struggle all over the world so we have to have a Global solidarity and struggle. Please look into the Forest Rights Act of 2006.in India and push the Kenyan Govt to pass a similar law and recognise the rights of the community. Yours in struggle, Roy David, National Convener, National Adivasi Alliance.

Thank you Laura this is so important that you highlighted this.

My Homeland

Amazing video, that is my homeland

They are also in Uganda, the Mt Elgon side of Uganda

I think these people are also known as the Elgon Maasai.They are a remnant of the Maasai who used to travel with their herds as far north as the Trans Nzoia.In the early 1900 Rindepest destroyed their herds and so they had no reason to travel and so they settled on the slopes of Mt Elgon.

@brendakipkemoi2738

3 жыл бұрын

Very true, I'm one of them. But this particular subgroup the Ogiek were actually indigenous to Mt Elgon. We found them there and assimilated them.

@konuchtulelach1982

2 жыл бұрын

@@brendakipkemoi2738 Man?

@vijananarutomovement7625

Жыл бұрын

Ogiek is Kalenjin please, don't you see

I agree with all of you. It is a tricky situation that needs capacity building, mutual understanding as well as counting the long-term cost - 50 o 100 years from now, how many Ogieks or other local communities will we have in number, that do or want to live in the forests at the same time, what happens to these people who know no existence outside the forest? They need schools, hospitals, etc. It is quite a delicate balance.

Iam ogiek from Serengonik in Nandi county

Hello Brenda,very nice to hear from you.I was born in Kitale in 1952 and my parents farmed at Endebess on the road to Suam.I have such happy memories of life on the farm.We could see the bluff and the top of Elgon from our house.I climbed Elgon on a school trip in 1964.Very cold.My father was fluent in Swahili and i could speak a bit. He was also fluent in Kipsigis and Nandi.My grand parents arrived in Kitale in 1925.The whole district was empty of people.They discovered that people were still frightened of the Maasai and kept out of the Trans Nzoia .If the Maasai had found them they would have chingad them.My grand parents had to go to Nandi to collect people to come and work on the farm. I am so glad that people are trying to look after Elgon,it is a very special mountain.Keep well

@guyluck9253

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Brenda are the Ogeik also known as the Ndorobo?

@konuchtulelach1982

2 жыл бұрын

The whole district was empty of people? My grandfather who was born in Chorlim (a short distance from Endebess) in 1910 was exiled to Kapenguria (West Pokot) by your grand parents. We have never healed from what you did to our community.

@guyluck9253

2 жыл бұрын

@@konuchtulelach1982 Dear Sir my Grand parents arrived in Tranz Nzoia in 1926 not 1910.You are talking Rubish

@guyluck9253

2 жыл бұрын

@@konuchtulelach1982 Dear Sir my grand parents arived in Transnzoia in 1926 NOT 1910.OK

@davieskiplagat5400

Жыл бұрын

@@guyluck9253 he means the British displaced alot of natives from their original land

We need to be recognised , our land to be marginalized and our rights to respected.

These people are just Sabaots like us , government gave them land and they sold at cheaper price,each one was given 5acres of land.If they are not destroying forest the government has no reason to chase them from the forest . "They are good people".

If all the indigenous communities in Kenya speak with one voice, the current govt could offer them audience where they can present their issues and come up with a lasting workable solution. So far the battle has been about "only us" with each group championing their own issues separately yet their problems are common and share one denominator - historical injustices related land.

Very nice documentary, let the world know how the Mt. Elgon ogieks are marginalised

Good song

My homeland 😭😭why evict us??

Imagin am in Mt Elgon but have never reached at this place called Chepkital

The problem of governments is the lack of brains. Communities living in forests like ogiek are the best conservationists, they have developed a sustainable way of living on forest products without harming the forest ecosystem. For example; If they were assisted by the governments with modern hives, they can produce alot of honey if for export markets. These people are not so much interested in owning the forest but in living. The government can develop a system whereby they can be allocated living land with schools, hospital and other amenities on the edge of forest, while they produce honey in the forest for sale to other parts of their country.

My home land

Hold it,kebunu online achek

is the audio of this video licenced? i want to sample some voices from the natives

@isaiahndiwa4373

5 жыл бұрын

Call me

My homeland.

@chepkwemoilaura2302

4 жыл бұрын

Yess my home

kalenjin clans but this the bush ones

@brendakipkemoi2738

3 жыл бұрын

Very true! Some Karen Jin clans also descended from Somali

@konuchtulelach1982

2 жыл бұрын

Forest dwellers.... not bush. We have differences between thicket, bush (Wuuyeet), Rain forest/thick forest (Saamiyta), wilderness (Suurkween), and forest (Wook/Wookeet) The Ogiek name is from Wook/wookeet, meaning forest dwellers.

These are kalenjins

Kalenjins hawa