Among the Pokot, death is revered with strong beliefs that it is the bridge between the living and the afterlife. While modern practices occasioned by Christianity have, over the years, been embraced ...

Leah Marko was one of the few people in the Kenyan village of Chesongoch to heed the warnings. On the evening of March 11, the 35-year-old schoolteacher put her two children to bed and told them to be ...

In the heart of West Pokot County, where rugged hills stretch into the horizon and pastoralism defines daily life, tradition still holds a firm grip on the lives of women, especially when it comes to ...

Nairobi — The name elicits memories of the past. Memories of the struggle for independence; memories of the detention and eventual trial of the "Kapenguria Six", the freedom fighters led by nation ...

Nomadic pastoralist women who used to be dependent on their husbands are creatively changing the lives of their families in Kenya’s West Pokot County. Women were not allowed to own property according ...

West Pokot county commissioner Peter Okwanyo has officially handed over a Sh34 million office to West Pokot governor-elect Simon Kachapin. The government built the offices to serve as the county ...

The desire to be a part of the Pokot culture in Kenya has brought a lot of anger towards American missionary Trizah Estes and her husband Tony Estes who decided to go through all the traditional Pokot ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Susana Daniel Chemakwany sits quietly under a white tent near the U.S. Capitol, stitching tiny, multicolored beads together into a colorful array of necklaces, wristlets and earrings ...

Farmers in Trans Nzoia are facing crop losses as short rains fail, with traditional circumcision rites blamed for disrupting ...

A Pokot girl, covered in animal skins, walks to a place where she will rest after being circumcised in a tribal ritual. The traditional practice of circumcision within the Pokot tribe is a rite of ...

BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) - In an isolated region in Kenya’s Rift Valley, young men spear a bull in a ceremony that marks a gateway to adulthood. Far from the bustling capital of Nairobi, locals ...