Mijikenda Indigenous Vegetables

This article lists some of the popular vegetables among all the nine indigenous Mijikenda communities. For hundreds of years, these vegetables have played a key role in not only promoting the community’s health wellbeing, but they help to prevent and even cure some of the modern day diseases.

As the younger generations embraces modernity, its critical that we preserve the knowledge and skills centered on growing and preventing the extinction of our biodiversity in our communities to help combat some of the modern day diseases.

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