Kenya

Author: Andrew IC

  • Swahili Tribe

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    Although the people of the coast do not have a common heritage, they do have a linguistic link — Kiswahili (commonly referred to as Swahili), a Bantu-based language which evolved as a means of communication between Africans and foreign traders such as Arabs, Persians and the Portuguese. As might be expected with such diverse input,…

  • Embu Tribe

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    The Aembu, are a Bantu tribe closely related to the Kikuyu and Meru. They majorly inhabit Kenya’s Embu district, which is a fertile agricultural region located at the foothills of Mount Kenya. They speak the Embu language.

  • Kalenjin Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions

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    The population of the Kalenjin tribe is about 3 million being the fourth largest ethnic group in Kenya. This tribe is traditionally pastoralist and is made up of about 10 sub-groups. The largest sub-group is the Kipsigis.

  • Kuria Tribe

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    The Kuria tribe are an ethnic and linguistic group resident in the west and east districts of Nyanza Province in southwest Kenya. In 2006 the Kuria population was estimated to number 609,000, with 435,000 living in Tanzania and 174,000 in Kenya.

  • Maasai Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions (Masai)

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    The Maasai culture and people have long remained the ideal mental conceptualization of the Western European idea of an African “noble savage. Tall, elegant, handsome; walking with a gentle spring of the heel, seemingly proud and indifferent to all but most necessary external influences.”

  • Ogiek Tribe

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    The Ogiek are an indigenous people that live in and around the Mau Forest, an area of 900 square kilometers (550 square miles) about 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya and in the forests around Mt. Elgon at the border to Uganda.

  • Teso Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions

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    Teso Tribe: The Teso people of Kenya are an extension of their Ugandan counterparts in that they were merely separated by the partition of East Africa during the historic scramble and partition of Africa just like the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania and the Oromo of Kenya and Ethiopia.

  • Somali Culture, Tribe, People, Language, Religion and Tradition

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    Kenya’s North Eastern Province is home to the Somali tribe of Kenya, a cushitic tribe found in larger numbers in the neighboring Somalia Republic and in Ethiopia.