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    Commercialising Indigenous Pottery Industry to Support Economic Empowerment among Indigenous Akamba Women
    (The Technical University of Kenya, 2024) Pascaline Ndila
    Commercialising is introducing products or services to the market for profit making. Pottery was an indigenous industry that supported pre-colonial societies’ social, cultural, and economic activities. For some reasons, such as colonisation, pottery industries waned in most indigenous societies. The Akamba community, a subset of Bantu communities, practised pottery as one of their economic activities in the pre-colonial period. Today, the community has a significant number of women who engage in unpaid domestic labour and live in abject poverty. The study was conducted to identify the economic potential of the indigenous pottery industry and identify strategies to commercialise the industry and convert it into an economic hub for indigenous Akamba women. The study was a survey that used non-probability sampling techniques to select the sample. Questionnaires were used to gather data that was analysed descriptively with the help of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). A regression analysis was conducted to test the study hypothesis. The findings of the study indicated that the pottery industry has economic potential in Ukambani, and thus, commercialising the industry would lead to the economic empowerment of the indigenous Akamba women. If the findings above are actualised, society will achieve SDG No. 5, which seeks to empower women economically and give them financial independence. This paper contributes to the literature because limited information exists on how to commercialise indigenous industries. The paper is relevant to policymaker’s keen on implementing SDGs supporting financial empowerment for indigenous women. Keywords: Traditional pottery manufacturing, economic mobility, financial independence, native women