Kargi, Kenya

Some descriptive landmarks are the dark mountains, Haldayan (meaning Marsabit) and the vast salty desert lake Turkana in the west of the Marsabit/Mt Kulal biosphere.

Among the first teachers, Mr. George I. Orre, Francis S. Orgule, The UNESCO researcher Dr. Phil, (American), The first colonial Governor of Marsabit, First Bishop Cavallera, among the first Italian missionaries who arrived in 1950’s and the first primary school spread knowledge amongst the Rendille people.

This includes the brutal killings of Bargeri at Bagasi in 1968, the inter-clan conflicts, the raids, ancient female gender ageset lifestyle mapping, nomadic inputs and cultural events.

[5] In 2020, residents from Kargi sued the state of Kenya over claims of poisonous materials being dumped in the area by international corporations.

One of the companies mentioned was Amoco Petroleum, which explored for oil in the 1980s, and after no success, abandoned the project without properly cleaning.

[7] On the 1st of March at 2AM, bandits attacked the town of Kargi, stealing about a 1000 sheep and goats and killing 3, two of which were children aged 7 and 8, and the other was a 35 year old herdsman [8]