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In those first of days the Sun, who married the moon, proceeded to the earth to prepare the present order of things. There he found or created Ilet who lived on earth in those days with an elephant, whom the Kalenjin believed to be the father of all animals and an Okiek who was the father of all mankind.
Cheptaleel's Prayer. Cheptalel [6] [7] (also Cheptaleel) is a heroine found in the folklore of the Kipsigis [8] and Nandi [9] sections of the Kalenjin people of Kenya. She became a folk hero as a result of being offered as a sacrifice (actually or symbolically) to save the Kalenjin sections from a drought that was ravaging their land.
Contemporary Kalenjin culture is a product of its heritage, the suite of cultural adoptions of the British colonial period and modern Kenyan identity from which it borrows and adds to. Language. The Kalenjin speak Kalenjin languages as mother tongues. The language grouping belongs to the Nilotic family.
Nilotic people in Uganda includes the Luo peoples ( Acholi, Alur, Adhola ), the Ateker peoples ( Iteso, Kumam, Karamojong, Lango people who despite speaking a mixture of Luo words, have Atekere origins, Sebei, and Kakwa ). In East Africa, the Nilotes are often subdivided into three general groups:
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. 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. [1]
The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Samburu are semi- nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels. The name they use for themselves is Lokop or Loikop, a term which may have a variety of meanings which Samburu themselves do not agree on. Many assert that it refers to them as "owners of ...
Chemosit, Kerit, Koddoelo, Ngoelo, Ngoloko, Duba. Country. Kenya. In east African folklore, the Nandi bear is a creature said to live in East Africa. [1] [2] It takes its name from the Nandi people who live in western Kenya, in the area the Nandi Bear is reported from. It is also known as Chemosit, [1] Kerit, Koddoelo, Ngoloko, or Duba (which ...