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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.
The full complexity of this system would breakdown differently in the descendant communities with the Kalenjin retaining the age-sets and losing the age-grades while the Datooga dropped the age-sets and retained the age-grades as central to social cohesion.
It has been suggested that such synchronization suggests that most or all Kalenjin groups constituted not merely an ethno-linguistic category but a single information-sharing system. [10] In contemporary times, the age-set system has become a central focus of various academic studies that try to correlate the method with the Western system of ...
Ibinda (age set) According to the Kalenjin social system, the male sex is divided into boys, warriors and elders. The female sex is divided into girls and married women. The first stage began at birth and continued till initiation. All boys who were circumcised together are said to belong to the same piinta. These age sets played a significant ...
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.
Contents. Kipsigis people. The Kipsigis or Kipsigiis[ 2 ] are a Nilotic group contingent of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak a dialect of the Kalenjin language identified by their community eponym, Kipsigis. [ 3 ] It is observed that the Kipsigis and another aboriginal group native to Kenya known as Ogiek have a merged identity.
The emotinwek system of territorial organisation was broadly similar to that of other Kalenjin communities. The Nandi territory was by the turn of the century divided into six counties known as emet (pl. emotinua/emotinwek). These were Wareng, located to the north, Mosop in the northeast, Tindiret in the east, Soiin and Pelkut in the south ...
Traditional faiths (Dinka religion, Kalenjin folklore etc), Christianity, Islam. The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the northern border area of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. [1]