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Kisii is located in western Kenya, on latitude: 0° 41' 0 S and longitude: 34° 46' 0 E. The town is a driving distance of 309 km (192 mi) from the capital city of Nairobi, located east-southeast, on Class B3 all-weather road. Other major urban centre's distances from Kisii town are Kisumu City which is 114 km (71 mi) to the northwest; Nyamira ...
Website. www .kisii .go .ke. Kisii County is a county in the former Nyanza Province in southwestern Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kisii. The county has a population of 1,266,860 people. [2] It borders Nyamira County to the North East, Narok County to the South, and Homa bay and Migori Counties to the West. [3] The county covers an area ...
The term is now popularly used in Kenya to refer to Abagusii people. Among the Abagusii, the name Kisii does not refer to the people, but to a town — Kisii, also called Bosongo or Getembe by the locals, is the major native urban centre of the Abagusii people. The name Bosongo is believed to have originated from Abasongo, which means "the ...
Occupation. Politician & Governor of Kisii County. Profession. Public Policy Administrator. James Elvis Omariba Ongwae (born 1952) [4] is a former Governor of Kisii County government. He is a member of the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected as the first Governor of Kisii County Government on the ODM ticket in March 2013 - August 2022.
Kisii University is a public university located in Kisii. It was founded in 1965 as a primary teachers’ training college on a 61-acre land that was donated by the County Council of Gusii. The college continued up to 1983 when it was upgraded to a secondary teachers’ college to offer Diploma programmes.
The factory, expected to start construction in July 2016, is a 100% subsidiary of the Kanoria Group, an Indian conglomerate, with business interests in sugar manufacturing, cement, pharmaceuticals, tea, jute products, textiles, chemicals, packaging and roofing materials. The Group whose factories are located on the Indian sub-continent, also ...
Information. Rite. Latin Rite. Current leadership. Pope. Francis. Bishop. Joseph Mairura Okemwa. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kisii ( Latin: Kisiian (us)) is a diocese located in the city of Kisii in the ecclesiastical province of Kisumu in Kenya .
The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in Kisii and Nyamira counties in Nyanza Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii Town, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania ). It is spoken natively by 2.2 million people (as of 2009), mostly among the Abagusii.