See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Leah Marko was one of the few people in the Kenyan village of ...

Among the Pokot, death is revered with strong beliefs that it is the bridge between the living and the afterlife. While modern practices occasioned by Christianity have, over the years, been embraced ...

Nomadic pastoralist women who used to be dependent on their husbands are creatively changing the lives of their families in Kenya’s West Pokot County. Women were not allowed to own property according ...

The Pokot of Amudat district and western Kenya follow a culture that has ensured the sustainability of their semi-arid environments. In most cases, the trees are individually owned and rarely cut. The ...

The desire to be a part of the Pokot culture in Kenya has brought a lot of anger towards American missionary Trizah Estes and her husband Tony Estes who decided to go through all the traditional Pokot ...

Nairobi — A Pokot traditional children's play song carried the day as the schools and colleges national music festival started yesterday. The pupils of Kacheliba primary school in Rift Valley ...

A Pokot girl, covered in animal skins, walks to a place where she will rest after being circumcised in a tribal ritual. The traditional practice of circumcision within the Pokot tribe is a rite of ...

Warning: graphic content The traditional practice of female genital mutilation within the Pokot tribe, in a village about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, is a rite of passage ...