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Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests

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In Kenya: Cultural institutions
In 2008 the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests—several forests containing the remains of villages (kaya) once inhabited by the Mijikenda (Nyika) people and now considered sacred—were collectively designated a World Heritage site.
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