Laura Meriläinen

Laura Meriläinen

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  • @nicholaskorir9924
    @nicholaskorir9924 Жыл бұрын

    Iam ogiek from Serengonik in Nandi county

  • @erickoech9349
    @erickoech9349 Жыл бұрын

    Hold it,kebunu online achek

  • @africancultureexpress6729
    @africancultureexpress6729 Жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @sarahndiema3953
    @sarahndiema3953 Жыл бұрын

    My homeland 😭😭why evict us??

  • @davieskiplagat5400
    @davieskiplagat5400 Жыл бұрын

    These are kalenjins

  • @crispinus717
    @crispinus7172 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jamesgitahikahuro2443
    @jamesgitahikahuro24432 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @arikoemmanuel2512
    @arikoemmanuel25122 жыл бұрын

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

  • @briankorir4704
    @briankorir47042 жыл бұрын

    Kalenjins hawa

  • @guyluck9253
    @guyluck92533 жыл бұрын

    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
    @guyluck92533 жыл бұрын

    Hi Brenda are the Ogeik also known as the Ndorobo?

  • @konuchtulelach1982
    @konuchtulelach19822 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
    @guyluck92532 жыл бұрын

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

  • @guyluck9253
    @guyluck92532 жыл бұрын

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

  • @davieskiplagat5400
    @davieskiplagat5400 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @guyluck9253
    @guyluck92533 жыл бұрын

    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
    @brendakipkemoi27383 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
    @konuchtulelach19822 жыл бұрын

    @@brendakipkemoi2738 Man?

  • @vijananarutomovement7625
    @vijananarutomovement7625 Жыл бұрын

    Ogiek is Kalenjin please, don't you see

  • @andrewndiwa9072
    @andrewndiwa90723 жыл бұрын

    Good song

  • @iannaibei5578
    @iannaibei55785 жыл бұрын

    My Homeland

  • @brendakipkemoi2738
    @brendakipkemoi27385 жыл бұрын

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

  • @danielmacharia8444
    @danielmacharia84445 жыл бұрын

    My homeland.

  • @chepkwemoilaura2302
    @chepkwemoilaura23024 жыл бұрын

    Yess my home

  • @isaiahndiwa4373
    @isaiahndiwa43736 жыл бұрын

    My home land

  • @isaacsangula5054
    @isaacsangula50546 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video, that is my homeland

  • @evansmasaimasai9804
    @evansmasaimasai98046 жыл бұрын

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

  • @africa148_Somalia
    @africa148_Somalia7 жыл бұрын

    kalenjin clans but this the bush ones

  • @brendakipkemoi2738
    @brendakipkemoi27383 жыл бұрын

    Very true! Some Karen Jin clans also descended from Somali

  • @konuchtulelach1982
    @konuchtulelach19822 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.

  • @caldufer
    @caldufer10 жыл бұрын

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

  • @isaiahndiwa4373
    @isaiahndiwa43736 жыл бұрын

    Call me

  • @lottakjk
    @lottakjk10 жыл бұрын

    Also more on FPP website: www.forestpeoples.org/topics/customary-sustainable-use/news/2013/11/chepkitale-ogiek-community-document-their-customary-by

  • @godfreyaramis6119
    @godfreyaramis611910 жыл бұрын

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

  • @heelsandvalisetours
    @heelsandvalisetours11 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @83yelnats
    @83yelnats11 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @vsroydavid
    @vsroydavid11 жыл бұрын

    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.