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Evicted From Their Forests, Kenyan Hunter-gatherers Fight For Their Rights

Fred Ngusilo's grandfather's home was destroyed in Kenya's Mau Forest (Credit: AFP)

Fred Ngusilo stoops to pick up a leather pouch, once used to collect honey, and a discarded shoe from the Mau forest floor, painful reminders that his Ogiek hunter-gatherer community once quietly flourished in southern Kenya, before they were evicted and their homes destroyed.

Ngusilo belongs to the Ogiek group, which is among the last hunter-gatherer communities in Africa and one of the most marginalised in Kenya.

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