In a landmark ruling in May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights affirmed the Indigenous Ogiek’s status as ancestral owners of the Mau Forest in Kenya and ordered the ...

[Kipsang Joseph] The recent wave of violence in Nessuit, Mariashoni and Ndoswa villages in the Eastern Mau Forest have brought to the fore the simmering tensions over land in Nakuru County.

While in the Forest, the Mau Mau risked being attacked by wild animals or the colonialists who had superior weapons. However, Muthoni says it reached a point where they co-existed with the animals.