Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
World Heritage
Kenya
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The Mijikenda Kaya Forest consists of 10 separate forest sites, spread over approximately 200 km of the coast, and contains the remains of numerous fortified villages of the Mijikenda people, known as kayas. Originally built in the 16th century but abandoned in the 1940s, the kayas are now considered ancestral dwellings and revered as sacred places, and are therefore maintained by a committee of elders. The site is inscribed as a unique testimony to the cultural tradition and is directly linked to its living traditions.
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