Flashgordon’s Items of Note

Drylands cover 40% of the earth’s terrestrial surface and are home to over 2 billion people, the majority of whom belong to the poorest people in the world (MA 2005b). Most of the ‘poorest’ people living in drylands are pastoralists, hunter-gatherers and other traditional communities that can be considered as indigenous peoples according to international […]

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Living east of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, the Kalenjin indigenous people are part of the larger Southern Nilotic-speaking people of East Africa. Included in this larger language family are the Kipsigis, Nandi, Sabaot, Tugen, Elgeyo, Marakwet, and Pokot indigenous people, together who today number around 2 million.
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In the forests of Central Africa, the BaKa and Bambendzele indigenous peoples practice a traditional subsistence lifeway based on hunting and gathering. Often referred to as “pygmies” because they rarely grow taller than five feet, they live mostly in southern and northeastern Gabon, southern Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congo River basin of […]

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