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Kenya's indigenous communities living in resource-rich regions face widespread land dispossession, environmental degradation, and exclusion from development decisions, a new report by the Kenya ...

In Lagos, Nigeria, where the hum of the city mingles with the aroma of freshly baked bread, Chef Juliet Aigbe, known affectionally as “Chef Juls,” slides a grain-free wedding cake into a large ...

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Maasai have called the grasslands of Northern Tanzania home. But for years, the Tanzania government has been trying to convert the region, which is legally Maasai ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Kabon Chirchir sells medicinal herbs at Nginyang Market in Tiaty, Baringo county. [File, Standard] UNESCO defines ...

Amelie Fischer is the winner of the 2022 Samantha Singh Memorial Award. Her award-winning essay answered this question: ‘Our response to the climate crisis is going to change economies and societies ...

Introduction / Gloria Emeagwali and George J. Sefa Dei -- Intersections between Africa's indigenous knowledge systems and history / Gloria Emeagwali -- Indigenous distillation in northeastern Nigeria ...

UNESCO defines indigenous knowledge as the knowledge, innovations, and practices of indigenous and local communities that have been developed over generations and passed down either orally or through ...