Maasai Voices: Climate Action and Women's Empowerment in Kenya

EcoJustice Radio · Dec 25, 2023 · 1h 7m

The Maasai are Indigenous people from southern Kenya, renowned and revered for their pastoral, nomadic heritage. They inhabit and range across the African Great Lakes region, and have traditionally subsisted almost entirely on the meat, blood and milk of their cattle herds. While many may romanticize the traditional ways of the Maasai, their Earth-based wisdom and connection to the land, Maasai lifeways are now under threat of climate change, overpopulation, and global warming. On this show we talk with two Maasai youth activists working to make life better, Winnie Seuta Kisioki, founder of…