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 ...

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

Police in Kenya say at least eight people have been killed in the latest tribal unrest to hit the Tana River region. Raiders from the Pokomo community attacked an Orma community village with guns and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tana River Governor Hussein Dado was yesterday crowned a Pokomo elder. The ceremony was meant to foster unity between the Orma and Pokomo communities. The communities clash over pasture. Dado, who is ...

Kilelengwani, Kenya – Men with machetes hacked their way inside the mosque’s prayer room where the women and children were hiding as the morning light streamed through a jagged hole in the front door.

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 ...

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 ...