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The Kuria people (also known as the AbaKurya, [2] are a Bantu community in Tarime District of Mara Region in Tanzania and southern Kenya. Their homeland is bounded on the east by the Migori River and on the west by the Mara River estuary. Traditionally a pastoral and farming community, the Kuria grow maize, beans and cassava as food crops and ...
Cushitic-speaking peoples. Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively. Today, Cushitic languages are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north and south in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania.
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 Shakahola Forest incident refers to a religious cult in the Shakahola forest led by Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of Good News International Ministries.The incident gained attention in the early weeks of April 2023 when a man contacted the police after his wife and daughter left Nairobi, Kenya, to join Paul Nthenge Mackenzie's remote Good News International Ministries in Kilifi County and did not ...
Amby Burfoot of Runner's World stated that the odds of Kenya achieving the success they did at the 1988 Olympics were below 1:160 billion. Kenya had an even more successful Olympics in 2008. [citation needed] A number of theories explaining the unusual athletic prowess among people from the Kalenjin-speaking people have been proposed.
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 ...
Isaac Maigua Mwaura (born May 29, 1982) is the current Government Spokesman of Kenya, [1] a former Senator as well as a former Cabinet Administrative Secretary (CAS) - Deputy Minister [2] in the Office of Prime Cainet Secretary. [3] Mwaura served as a Senator [4] in Kenya's Senate under the Jubilee Party between 2017 and 2022 where he was ...
Eid al-Fitr. Depends on the sighting of the moon. Eid al-Adha. 10 October. Mazingira Day, formerly Utamaduni Day (moved to Dec 26), formerly Huduma Day, formerly Moi Day [2] 20 October. Mashujaa Day (Formerly Kenyatta Day) 12 December. Jamhuri Day, marks the date of Kenya's establishment as a republic on 12 December 1964.