July 17, 2023 – Delivery of the Certificate of Appreciation by NECOFA
(Network of Ecofarming in Africa).
[Photo by Alfredo Felletti].
From left to right:
Lucy Mathenge (NECOFA administrator)
John Munene (NECOFA director)
Bruna Sironi (Ethnorêma representative in Kenya)
Martin L. Kiptiony (MACODEV president)
July 17, 2023 – Delivery of the Certificate of Appreciation by MACODEV (Mariashoni Community Development).
[Photo by Alfredo Felletti].
From left to right:
Frederick Lesingo (President Ogiek Beekeepers Association)
Claire C. Rono (MACODEV treasurer)
Bruna Sironi (Ethnorêma representative in Kenya)
Martin L. Kiptiony (MACODEV president)
John Munene (NECOFA director)
Stephen K. Lelei (MACODEV production manager)
Events
On the occasion of the 2017 Cooperation Day, the conference entitled Land grabbing. The robbed lands in the global South was organized by the Foreign Relations and Voluntary Service Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.
The program also included a section called Storytelling: Stories of Development Cooperation, in which Ethnorêma presented an account of its activities among the Ogiek.
Publications
by Ilaria Micheli
Book:
- (2019) Grammatical Sketch and Short Vocabulary of the Ogiek Language of Mariashoni. Trieste: EUT.
(available also online).
Articles:
- (2020) “Contact or cognate languages? The Ogiek of Mariashoni and the Akie of Tanzania in the Kalenjin continuum” in Incontri Linguistici, vol. 43, pp. 117-134.
- (2018) “La tradizione orale come campo di ricerca utile allo studio della storia, della lingua e della cultura dei cacciatori raccoglitori. Un caso di studio Africano”, in Ligi, Pedrini, Tamisari (ed.) Un accademico impaziente. Studi in onore di Glauco Sanga. p. 495-507, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso.
- (2017) “Women’s lives: childhood, adolescence, marriage and motherhood among the Ogiek of Mariashoni (Kenya) and the Kulango of Nassian (Ivory Coast)” in Micheli, I. (a cura di) ATrA 3 – Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored: Proceedings of the ATRA closing workshop – Trieste, May 25-26, 2016; pp. 13-32. Trieste: EUT.
- (2016) “Materiality and Hunt among the Ogiek of Mariashoni” in Micheli, I. (a cura di) Materiality and Identity. Selected papers from the proceedings of the ATRA Conferences of Naples and Turin 2015, pp. 57-92. Trieste: EUT.
- (2016) “We are indigenous and we want to be literate in our own language”. The Ogiek of Mariashoni: a good example of how a literacy project with the best premises can be a failure” in AION 2016, vol 76, pp. 77-101. Brill.
- (2014) “The Ogiek of the Mau Forest: Reasoning between Identity and Survival” in La Ricerca Folklorica, vol. 69, pp. 189-204.
- (2014) “Safeguarding the Past to Guarantee a Better Future. The Role of Ethnolinguistics in the NECOFA projects among the Mariashoni Okiek Community” in Dansero E., De Filippi F., Fantini E., Marocco I. (a cura di) Imagining Cultures of Cooperation – Proceedings of the III CUCS Congress, Turin 19-21 September 2013, JUNCO – Journal of Universities and international development Cooperation, n. 1, www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/junco/ ISBN 978-88-96894-16-3, pp. 777-784.
- (2014) “The Okiek of Mariashoni, Nakuru District, Mau Forest Complex, Kenya. A Sociolinguistic Report” in Incontri Linguistici nr 37, pp. 136-157.
- (2013) “Honey and Beekeeping among the Okiek of Mariashoni, Mau Forest Escarpment, Nakuru District, Kenya” in Ethnorêma, anno IX, vol. 9, pp. 55-102.
- (2013) “An Okiek Folktale” in Ethnorêma, anno IX, vol. 9, pp. 131-136.
by Maria Pennacchio
Articles:
- (2013) “Ogiek (Okiek) di Mariashoni (Kenya): Comunità di Kaprop, Ndoswa, Kiptunga, Molem ” in Ethnorêma, anno IX, vol. 9, pp. 103-130.
Press review
SBS radio (Australia) interview with Bruna Sironi (August 11, 2017)
July 24, 2017 article on the website of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano
