Baaribbe
A place to come together
Apwoyo Bino Ba!
(WELCOME)
It Begins With Us.
For the first time, Luo peoples from across the world are coming together on a dedicated platform built on connection rather than isolation, shared identity rather than division, and open knowledge rather than gatekeeping.
This space asks essential questions: What legacy are we leaving our children? What shared knowledge defines us? And can we collectively identify — and take responsibility for correcting — the social, economic, and cultural barriers that limit our development?
By reconnecting with our history, learning from one another, and making our presence known to ourselves and among ourselves, we contribute to the building of a strong, living civilisation — one grounded in knowledge, responsibility, and collective action and outcomes. This can only enable the taking of responsibility for over coming challenges and identifying opportunities, that more empowering.
Baaribbe
What You Will Find
What You Will Find
Our History Heritage & Preservation
Our History: Examining our past through written records, archaeology, oral traditions and events.
Our Heritage : Our cultural and indigenous knowledge, practices, languages, sacred sites, traditional and artistic expressions including cultural artefacts.
Preservation : The protection of material and living heritage— through local community ownership and stewardship—so that histories that have been disrupted through war, displacement and migration are not erased but sustained.
Developmental Research & Knowledge Development
Within our context, it is a participatory and on the ground way of probing and learning . It examines how change has been happening within and outside our communities, their effects, using regular feedback and repeated cycles of action, reflection, and improvement. The aim is to build on local knowledge, strengthen understanding, guide decision-making, and overall long-term impact to create a reliable knowledge base from and for real world application.
Community & Collaboration
We aim to work together with people, groups, and institutions in ways that value shared knowledge, mutual responsibility, and collective action whilst emphasizing on real experiences, relationships, and local knowledge of people connected by place, culture, or shared concerns.
Community & Collaboration is about building change with people, through trust, shared learning, and collective effort.
Action & Impact
Putting Action To Work: Turning research into real-world results by using strategic application of research findings to solve specific community problems, borrowing proven ideas to solve local problems. We move beyond just talking about a plan and actually putting it to work through projects that help the community.
Impactful, measurable consequences of Putting Action To Work encompasses socio-cultural and economic growth, environmental maintenance, and strengthened community identity that result from successful preservation and development.
Our Approach
Our African Bedrock Phrases
Ribbo Wich (ríb·bo·wich)
Joining Minds— “the coming together”
Wich (pronounced weech) means head or mind, not to be confused with Adam which means brain
This community-building prhase brings together like minded women of the Luo African diaspora who are united through shared purpose and conversation. Ribbo-wich is the foundation of our organisation — a place to connect, find belonging and purpose so that we ignite collective strength. A Phase One
Ribbo Tam (ríb·bo·tám)
Joining Ideas — “the think tank”
Tam means thought, ideas or consideration
This phrase is a collaborative one, focused on bringing together ideas, research, and deep analysis of the day to day. Ribbo Tam — a space to strategically analyse our challenges, how we can overcome them, our strengths and and how we can develop practical pathways forward to co-create innovative ways and support our communities both away and and at home . Phase Two
Ribbo Tich (ríb·bo·tích)
Joining Effort — “the action phase”
Tich( pronounced teech) means work or effort
A phrase dedicated to application, collaboration, and real-world impact. Ribbo Tich is where ideas become the real work, in the real world — a space for women of the African diaspora to build projects, host events, form partnerships, and bring community-led solutions to life on the ground. It represents taking part in changing our state of circumstances and taking responsibility in the creation of real change, this is where conversations turn into action. Phase Three
Who this is for:
The Luo Homeland
The Luo Diaspora
Researchers & Students
Community Organisers
Strategic Partnerships
“Ribbe Kelo Teko”
Strength is born from togetherness.
– Acholi proverb
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