Johnstone, Kenya - lives beyond all borders
Channel: Youth for a United World - Y4UW
Date: 2018-02-02

The northern part of Kenya is populated by 14 different ethnic groups. Many of whom are nomadic pastoralists. These beautiful landscapes, however, are stained by the blood spilled because of tribal violence, notably between the Boranas and the Rendille. The situation between the two warring tribes are commonplace in their region, where age-old conflicts over ever depleting resources of water and pasture have been the norm.

Johnstone is 22, he comes from the village of Badasa and a member of the Borana people. Tribalism and the lack of peace have always bothered him, so he decided to commit himself to spreading peace among the communities where members of rival tribes often kill each other. He began to volunteer at a school across the valley belonging to an opposing tribe. He was among one of the first individuals to be accepted by the Rendille. To bring the youth together Johnstone used a special weapon: soccer.

Today, peace prevails. People are united; there is a shared market and the herds of opposing tribes graze together. The Rendille and Borana are agents of peace not only in their respective communities but in others communities which are in violence.

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