Ritah – African Institute for Culture and Ecology

June 5, 2025

Communities driving locally led restoration efforts to revitalize Bubeke Community Forest in Kalangala District, Uganda.

Deep in Kalangala District in Uganda lies the Bubeke sacred rain forest, once a home to 13 sacred natural sites protected by Basese custodians who enforced customary governance systems. But over the years, waves of oil-palm plantations and charcoal making have eaten away at Bubeke’s edges. Margret Nakazibwe, a 50-year-old smallholder farmer and a resident of the area recalls how […]

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April 1, 2025

African commission Resolution (372) on Sacred Natural Sites and Territories

The African commission on human and Peoples’ Rights is a Pan-African body. Its key role is to ensure that both individuals (humans) and communities (peoples) have their inherent rights, as enshrined in the African Charter, acknowledged and protected across Africa. Since being founded in 1987, Commissioners have met at least twice a year to report on progress and violations of […]

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March 21, 2025

AFRICE PUSHES FOR NATIONAL RATIFICATION OF A RESOLUTION TO PROTECT SACRED NATURAL SITES IN UGANDA

BY AFRICE ADMIN In a significant move to safeguard Uganda’s cultural and ecological heritage, the African Institute for Culture and Ecology (AFRICE) has started pushing for national ratification of a resolution aimed at protecting the sacred natural sites. The African Commission Resolution 372, passed in 2017, calls on African states to recognize and protect Sacred Natural Sites and Territories (SNST) […]

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March 20, 2025

How do indigenous people understand climate and how it changes?

How do indigenous people understand climate and how it changes? We need to know how indigenous people know climate in their context instead of us the elite (western educated elite) to force them “understand” the meaning of climate according to our understanding. I have spent the bigger part of my life learning from my father (now late) about how our […]

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March 19, 2025

Indigenous Bio cultures and Rights of Nature in Uganda

Dennis Tabaro shares insights in the interview about his work on the rights of nature and the significance of indigenous knowledge and culture in Uganda. By Dennis Tabaro 27 January 2025 The Buliisa elders and Custodians of SNS drawing an Ancestral map of the Sacred Natural Sites. licence infos The interview questions were posed by dossier coordinator Imke Horstmannshoff. What […]

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December 5, 2024

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE OF WOMEN FARMERS IN AFRICA; HOW THINGS WERE, HOW THEY ARE NOW AND POSSIBLE FUTURES.

Indigenous knowledge. Simply put, indigenous knowledge is a combination of human mental and practical knowledge, in most cases unwritten or undocumented. This knowledge has been passed by, and acquired from, one generation to another inform of stories, songs and practical forms (skills) by old to young ones. Indigenous knowledge is developed and maintained in an open system of exchange, reciprocity […]

Agroecology 0 16 min read

November 18, 2024

Success Story-Buliisa

Kwanke Alice,61 years old, a small holder farmer from the Bagungu community in Buliisa District, Western Uganda, grew up deeply connected to the land and its ancestral traditions. For her, farming was not merely a means of sustenance but a sacred duty tied to the stewardship of her community’s Sacred Natural Sites, which her ancestors had carefully protected for generations. […]

Community ecological governance 0 2 min read