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Community members celebrating with sacred dance after ritual ceremony
17th February 2022

Reviving ritual & building solidarity in Tharaka, Kenya

In this story, Gaia’s long-time partner, Simon Mitambo, describes how the Indigenous Tharakan People of central Kenya are reviving culture and ritual to build their resilience to COVID-19 and other… Read More

17th May 2021

The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective: Navigating towards a Resilient Future

A new article, written for the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, explores the emergence of the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective and how this dynamic group of practitioners is helping African Indigenous… Read More

3rd November 2020

Learning, unlearning and relearning to nurture future African leadership

Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Simon Mitambo describes the work and success of the Kithino Learning Centre. A school like no other where students are able to reconnect with and learn from… Read More

6th October 2020

Interactive Story: Coming back to life in Tharaka, Kenya

“We are turning the tide on the history of loss in our own lands.” In the first instalment in Gaia’s global Stories of Resilience series, our Kenyan colleague Simon Mitambo… Read More

28th September 2020

Conscious Lawyer: The Emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa

In this new article published by The Conscious Lawyer Magazine, Gaia’s Carlotta Byrne explores the emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa, Gaia’s role in it, and the deep connections between… Read More

14th September 2020

Frontline Food – a new podcast

A new podcast that gives voice to the radical, grassroots stories of our food systems has just been launched – Frontline Food. Through interviews with leading food sovereignty activists, including… Read More

15th October 2019

In Photos: Tharakans map their past, present and future

This photo story explores how indigenous Tharakan People from central Kenya are reviving their Earth-centred customary laws, sacred natural sites, indigenous seeds and the life of their territory in climate-changed… Read More

29th May 2019

Simon Mitambo: Decolonisation, Climate Change and Earth Jurisprudence in Kenya

On this Madaraka (Independence) Day – let us embrace the urgency, and commit to restoring our ecosystems, defending them against destructive projects and policies and support and learn from those… Read More

8th May 2019

Sacred River, Sacred Land: a community goes ‘back to roots’ in Kenya

Simon Mitambo and his childhood community of Tharaka, Kenya, are working together to revive and enhance their Earth-centred culture and traditions. Theirs is a story of going ‘back to roots’… Read More

22nd October 2018

Tharaka: Communities come together to map their ancestral past

This September, elders and youth, men and women, from Tharaka came together in the foothills of Mount Kenya to document their ancestral past in the form of eco-cultural maps and… Read More