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Chelele was born in 1988 at Mugango village in Bomet County, Kenya. Between 1994 and 2006, she attended Njerian Primary before progressing to Chebonei Girls’ High School in Bomet. She discovered her talent at the school in Form 3 while participate in the country's music festivals competition for secondary schools.
Daniel arap Moi (1924–2020)), second President of Kenya. Willy Bett, former Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. Paul Bitok, two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 5,000 m (1992 and 1996) Amos Biwott, winner of the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1968 summer Olympic Games.
Raphael Kipchambai arap Tapotuk (1937 – 7 April 2007), better known by the stage name Kipchamba, was a Kalenjin singer-songwriter and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1970s. [ 1][ 2] He specialized in rhumba sung in the Kipsigis dialect of the Kalenjin language. While performing as a singer, Kipchamba preferred wearing a suit and ...
Norms & lifestyle. Maintaining peace and amity, especially between relations, is particularly important for the Kalenjin and ranks high on their scale of values. This type of peaceful relationship is known as Tiliet and is rooted in ancient Kalenjin culture. It is the root word of Tilionutik a person's wider relationship circle.
The Kerit is a mythological creature from Kalenjin folklore that has become well known in other parts of the world, mainly through popular culture and fantasy genres. However, there are a number of other saints, legendary figures and mythical creatures that feature in Kalenjin folklore, some of these include;
The Kalenjin people are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to East Africa, with a presence, as dated by archaeology and linguistics, that goes back many centuries. Their history is therefore deeply interwoven with those of their neighboring communities as well as with the histories of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Traditional Kalenjin society is the way of life that existed among the Kalenjin-speaking people prior to the advent of the colonial period in Kenya and after the decline of the Chemwal, Lumbwa and other Kalenjin communities in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The Pokot people (also spelled Pökoot) live in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in Uganda.They form a section of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak the Pökoot language, which is broadly similar to the related Marakwet, Nandi, Tuken and other members of the Kalenjin language group.