One of the most defining moments of Kenya’s constitution-making process at the Bomas auditorium in 2010 was a moving presentation by pastoralists. They asked delegates to respect their culture and recognise pastoralism as a way of life.
They wanted guaranteed rights to facilitate the transmission of pastoralism across generations and the protection of indigenous pastoralism knowledge. “What would it take for farmers to understand,” they emotionally asked to pin-drop silence, “that a cow was to its owner what land was to a farmer? Cows are our land!”
