On the road you do meet interesting, exciting casual encounters, we approach closely to people and landscapes, meetings that may change life but only the perception of an idea, a fact.
To destroy a house should be a day to rebuild it can take months, maybe years. When I talk to wise Maasai Ntoke bold awareness of the plight of his people, in a chance encounter at Namanga, the border between Tanzania and Kenya, I can not help but go over with the memory of all the suffering indigenous peoples around the world have suffered from men's dreams of conquest or the indiscriminate economic and political interests of governments.
Reaffirming that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures that are an integral part of the common heritage of mankind. E 'premise that one of the cornerstones of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples signed by as many as 143 countries 13 September 2007. In it highlight the fundamental principles governing their protection and survival. The identity and cultural heritage of each individual and reinforces its meaning when it comes to an entire people is expressed through it, lives and gives meaning to their existence.
Ntoke not familiar with this document, ignore it given that Kenya is one of the eleven countries that have refrain from concluding. And even if I knew you would know that everything it contains would have no influence to the indigenous peoples of the earth is spared from enormous international power games.
In 2002 the government of Daniel Arap Moi, had entered into a contract with the Canadian multinational Tiomin for the exploitation of Dongo Kundu , the land of the Digo, Kenya in the south, rich titanium.
The program for the exploitation of Dongo Kundu that the Digo language means "red earth", provided that the Digo leave their land, their only source of survival, and they moved to other areas, which would build a port for the docking of ships and landing of sophisticated machinery for the extraction of titanium and the realization of the latter a piece of coral reef was cut to facilitate access from the sea of \u200b\u200bvehicles and for twenty-five years the corporation had a free hand to extract the precious ore, after which time the earth would be uninhabitable and barren for the effect of all chemicals used . A 'equation, which means destruction and loss.
said that it is undeniable that the annihilation and the weakening of indigenous peoples always corresponds to the destabilization of the environmental balance. Its natural resources, inspiring dreams of conquest and power of governments, the impact that industry has had to exploit them, have caused enormous damage to the environment with dramatic effects on the entire planet. Only in Kenya, to cite a few examples, we are faced with real attacks on the biodiversity of lakes Nakuru and Naivasha, polluted by pesticides and any type of chemical used in the cultivation of products destined for European markets.
Indigenous peoples have lived for millennia in harmony with the natural environment. And 'their way of life, their ancestral knowledge who can balance the environmental balance, following a natural law of compensation which has the primary intent to preserve and pass on the importance of self.
In the recent history of humanity and the struggle for the conquest, there are countless acts of deprivation of fundamental rights at the expense of indigenous people just think about American Indians, the Ojiek in Kenya, the Aborigines of Australia, The Great Andamanese in India, the Shuar in Ecuador.
Try to imagine if one day we become in danger of losing our language, not dress up more of our clothes, eat foods unknown to us, could no longer live in our lands, the places to which we are bound, can not sing our songs. Imagine if one day tell us that we were forced to migrate against our will. All legitimate questions that leap to our minds and objectively, but which have only one thing certain, if someone is not a government, an institution, today or tomorrow to ask us to leave, will be the task of a natural disaster to force millions of men in real biblical Exodus.
conversation with the Director East African Wild Life Society , Ali A. Kaka, pone l'accento su una domanda che dovremmo fare nostra: Qua ndo l'uomo scoprirà la precarietà della sua esistenza sulla Terra? Questa domanda è solitamente messa da parte e ignorata come se non lo riguardasse con il rischio di accorgersene solo quando i disastri naturali sopraggiungeranno senza possibilità di soluzione.
La preoccupazione di Ntoke per le sorti del suo popolo e di riflesso di altri popoli, aggiungiamo noi, sono allarmanti: “ se distruggiamo il nostro stile di vita, per costruirne uno nuovo possono volerci migliaia di anni. Cosa faremo quando non avremo più terre per i nostri pascoli? Come faremo a vivere' e che fine faranno i nostri desturi, le nostre tradizioni”?
E' un dovere assumersi l'impegno di preservare le culture tradizionali indigene: esse costituiscono un tassello del grande mosaico della storia umana e la perdita di uno solo di questi tasselli significa la perdita di un pezzo della nostra esistenza.
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