Ancestral Homeland

My nomadic forefathers were arable and pastoral farmers and moved from island to Island in search of an area free from Tse Tse fly. They found peace here and lived on this island. They were of the Bayei tribe, also called the river people because they were dependent on the water based plants for food and medicine. This island also hosted the ancestral worshiping places which are the Baobabs.

I was born on this island and raised by my family of natural conservationists who taught me survival skills and conservation methods. My grandfather died in 1992 and was buried on the western side of the ancestral Baobab (Mowana).

When the government initiated land rights registration in 2017 I had a dream of creating a camp on this land and as the first born, my parents permitted me to apply and I got a positive reply in 2023. This land gave me my first breath and it is a dream come true to be here again, to be guardian for all the wild ones and to be a home for our conservation work and our local school conservation program. We want to host our supporters to share this story directly.