THE STANDARD
RIFT VALLEY
Members of the Ogiek community receive boxes containing Bibles written in their local language at a Narok hotel, yesterday. [Robert Kiplagat, Standard]
The Ogiek community yesterday unveiled its first-ever Bible written in their native language courtesy of the BibleTranslation and Literacy (BTL).
The community spread across the counties of Nakuru, Narok, Elgeyo Marakwet, Baringo and Nandi has different dialects, making the minority group’s language near extinct due to assimilation after being evicted from Rift Valley forests.
Traditionally, the Ogiek were hunters and gatherers but population pressure and modernity have turned them into small-scale farmers famed for bee-keeping.
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