Kalenjin: Another lost tribe of Israel?

Kalenjin youth at a traditional ceremony. Photo by William Oeri

If, in Kalenjin cosmology, the expanse of land that centres on the Mau forest was the “Promised Land,” then the Ogiek were their Canaanites.

As we read in Wanguhu Ng’ang’a’s newly published book Communities of Kenya, the Ogiek were the natives of that land.