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		Dr Charles Lane - Exchange Director   Dr Charles Lane (Australian) Social scientist who has lived in Africa for 10 years. It was here that he completed his doctoral research with a group of Barabaig herders and has thereafter conducted an international campaign in defence of their land rights. He has designed programs of work with the International Institute for the Environment and Development and Survival International to support people’s struggles to defend their lands.
		The AFRICAN VISITORS TO AUSTRALIA
		Dr Naomi Kipuri   Anthropologist (Maasai), researcher and consultant on pastoral development - mainly land and other resources. Country Co-ordinator of the Arid Lands and Resources Management Research Programme. Paper : Indigenous Peoples in Kenya : An Overview Click for video.
		Joseph ole Simel   Secretary to the Iloodoariak (Maasai) Community organization which is resisting the allocation of its members’ land that occurred with sub-division.
		Keriako Tobiko   Lawyer (Maasai) and advocate for the Iloodoariak community among others including the Loita Forest and Kitengala Sheep Multiplication Centre cases.
		The Honourable Justice M. ole Keiwua Judge (Maasai) of the Kenya High Court Paper : Maasai Land
		Saning’o K. ole Sanago Martin   Executive Secretary of Indigenous Maasai pastoralist Non Government Organisation, Ilaramatak Lorkonerei, and the national forum of pastoralist NGOs (PINGOs)
		Ben Lobulu   Chairman of the Tanzanian Human Rights Monitoring Group (HURIMOG), legal adviser to pastoral groups and among others is advocate in Naberera case where large tracts of pasture land and water resources have been allocated to large scale private and multi-national farming operations. Click for videos.
		Daniel Murumbi   Executive Secretary of Bulgalda and Ekaba community-based organisations. Activist in two cases where Barabaig herders are challenging the alienation of 30,000 acres of their best grazing land for a government wheat scheme. Click for video.
		Matei olle Timan MP   MP for Ngorongo district that includes the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA). Board member of NCA Authority. Instigator of Olosokwan case in which local Maasai residents successfully resisted alienation of most of their land by a ranching and tourist company. Click for videos.
		Dr. Ringo Tenga   Tanzanian, Senior Lecturer in law and advocate of legal aid committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Dar Es Salaam. Since 1988 he has acted for the Barabaig in 2 landmark cases. Paper : Processing a Land Policy : The Case of Mainland Tanzania Paper : Legislating for Pastoral Land Tenture in Tanzania : The Draft Bill