Muheani wrote:MugundaMan wrote:The journalist avers that they have maintained their traditional way of life but the evidence we see hapa suggests otherwise IMHO. I see a well clothed people who may be hard to distinguish from their neighbours if they did not wear those bead necklaces, very fat cattle, beehives, and commercialist complaints about not having enough land to farm!
They provide good labour to the farmers around Kasuku area
Some of them actually own land in the Ol Joro Orok/Ol Kalou Salient and do farming. There is another Turkana community in the Eburu/Oljorai area and they seem to be doing fairly well too.
I think the Turkana are the most cosmopolitan of the Nomadic tribes in Kenya and the way they have thrived far away from their ancestral lands is a good sign for the future. Maybe it has something to do with the hostile terrain there (Turkana, Karamoja, Kapoeta etc). Unlike the Masai who, although they are more welcoming of foreigners among them, do not venture too far afield.
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