Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
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We were happy people.
Life wasn't always happy though.
I think from the year 2000, we have seen droughts becoming more and more often and have become prolonged.
They are becoming more intense and severe.
This YouTube video from the charity Christian Aid shows people affected by these extreme conditions.
In 2009, we went through a very, very bad drought that killed almost 80% of our animals, 80 to 90%.
And even sometimes some families were left without any cow.
That year, Kenya's government declared a national emergency, warning nearly 10 million people were at risk from food shortages.
It's something Gabrielle Menezes from the United Nations World Food Programme talks about in this clip.
A number of factors have combined together to create this current food crisis in Kenya.
We had an elder who committed suicide because all the animals died.
And that means to him that the source of livelihood has been lost and he didn't have hope.
I had 127 animals and I lost a big number of those animals.
Dalmas was left with only 14 cows.
One family had 200 before.
Then they had seven.
During the worst of the drought, some herders travelled long distances, crossing into Tanzania, searching for grass for the cattle to graze on or water to drink.
But the conditions were so harsh, many animals didn't survive.
One elder and a big number were saying, this is what the end of the world means.
It's an ecological, social and economic collapse of the Maasai.
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