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Shola Lawal

Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back

Members of the Maasai community in Kenya protest against the eviction of their compatriots from their ancestral land in neighbouring Tanzania [File: Baz Ratner/Reuters]

Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania – Joseph Oleshangay’s theory is that government officials in his country, Tanzania, see people from his community as less than human.

The 36-year-old human rights lawyer and member of the Indigenous Maasai group is one of several at the forefront of a long-running fight to stop the government in the political capital, Dodoma, from forcefully evicting Maasai from areas around national parks.

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