Extinction of languages in East Africa worries Unesco

Maasais in East Africa have managed to preserve their culture despite external pressures from the modern world

Nominated MP Millie Odhiambo prides herself as being among the few descendants of the threatened ethnic tribe Abasuba.

Her Suba father married her Nilotic Luo mother many years ago when inter-marriages between the two communities were at their peak. Yet none of them can communicate in Suba the way they do in Dholuo, English or Kiswahili.