El Molo, Kenya: Our Sacred Land (Moite)
Channel: InsightShare
Date: 2022-10-24

The El Molo community is the smallest Indigenous community in Kenya, Marsabit County in Loiyangalani, at shore of lake turkana. Magella Lenatiyama and other El Molo community members, as the Participatory Video team, had the opportunity of escorting some elders to Moite mountain to witness the sacred ceremony of connecting with ancestors.

"This is usually done when the situation becomes hard amongst the community facing severe droughts, destruction of the environment, diseases  like Covid-19, and many other things. The elders worship and give praise to God to remove them from these problems which persist in our area.

This is also the first occasion which has been filmed; it will help the community to educate our children on the traditional practice, because it is expensive to take everyone on this journey.

Within the community we are using this film to show our children what our elders usually go and do at the sacred land 'Moite'. We are very grateful to document some of the activities done in this place."

-Magella Lenatiyama, El Molo community member and PV film maker.