Wilco in Kobor. These people
must walk 19kms before they
reach the main road.
Steven and Alice Maritani
have never left the area
where they stay nor have
they seen a white man before.
Lydia with some of the
children of the forest.
A friend visiting the forest
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The Dorobo Tribe
[ Ndorobos Strategy |
Ndorobos Project ]
DOROBO - one
NDOROBO - many
Population : + 29 000
Language : Kalengeen/Masai/Dorobo
Religion : Local Traditional
Ndorobo Mission Project
- Traditionally the Dorobo people were hunters and gatherers.
- They live in the Mau Forest and the area east to Tinderet,
Northeast to Cherangani and south to Narok. Ndorobo’s are
scattered because of the evictions from the forest that took
place around 1994.
- Dorobo, a Swahili word meaning “poor people without cattle”,
sums up the way the unsuspecting Dorobo have often been treated.
Being individualistic with poor self-esteem, they feel that they
can’t get ahead financially.
- They are from the Maa people and pre-existed before other tribes
in Kenya. The Kikuyu call them the pioneers.
- Both male and female circumcision is practiced.
- Beehives are very important for brewing pombe, their local beer,
and not realizing the value of their land, they traded much of it
to the Kikuyus for beehives.
- Alcohol is a major social problem.
- Today they are doing small-scale farming.
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