An elder discusses efforts to bring a Kenyan language back from extinction during a community event.
Loshiro, 28, is one of the few Yaaku people of northern Kenya who speak Yaakunte fluently – and, along with one of her sisters, the only young Yaaku. In the Unesco World Atlas of Languages, the United Nations lists the language as “severely endangered”, with only nine speakers. In 2010, Unesco declared Yaakunte to be extinct. But Loshiro is determined to give the language – and her culture – a future.