TANA RIVER, Kenya — The men and women, some claiming to be nearly 100 years old, gathered in a small courtyard to sing a hymn passed down to them by their forebears. “Oh, holy vibration,” the call to ...

One of the Pokomo hut builders explains hr craft to a young Festival visitor. Photo by Hillary Cleary, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution While walking through ...

The Pokomo community in Tana River county is celebrating a significant milestone with the official dedication of a Bible translated into their dialect. Joyful songs filled the air at the Idsowe ...

KILELENGWANI, KENYA — Thousands have fled violence that claimed more than 100 lives in August and September in Kenya’s Tana River District. One-thousand paramilitary troops have been deployed to keep ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya's government will conduct a countrywide operation to disarm all communities with illegal weapons, it announced Thursday, a day after at least 52 people were killed in southeast ...

The sacred ngadji drum of Kenya's Pokomo community was taken by British colonial officers over 100 years ago. Today, it's kept in storage at the British Museum in London — just one of thousands of ...

Attackers armed with machetes and spears killed at least 48 villagers from a rival community overnight Tuesday and set houses ablaze in what the police say was a revenge attack. Most of the victims ...

Fourteen people were killed in Garsen constituency of Tana River District following an attack by heavily armed bandits at dawn yesterday. The over 60 bandits armed with G3 and AK 47 riffles and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Men armed with machetes, bows and arrows, ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The ceremony was attended by Senate Speaker Amason Kingi, Tana River Governor Dhadho ...