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El Molo, who live on the South-Eastern borders of lake Turkana, are the smallest tribe in Kenya. Actually, their name is Maasai word for people without cattle. The Maasai use to despise all those communities who do not have cattle.
Very few elders nawoadays know the El Molo language. The youngs have turned to either Turkana or Samburu language and their original language is dying. Leave a Comment
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The Kamba people live in the Eastern part of Kenya, in villages composed of huts. Each hut is made of a ring of poles, coverted with grasses from top to bottom. Like in most of the other people this construction is made by women.
The Kamba are expersts in cultivation, growing beans, maize, bananas etc. The men are famous bow and arrow hunters. Leave a Comment
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My experience is that people get really happy for some small gift's , remember most people are very poor,and appreciate everything they can get. Leave a Comment
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The Luo tribe originated from southern Sudan, they are river/lake Nilotes closely related to the highland Nilotes among them the Kalenjins and the plain Nilotes like the Maasai. They keep cattle and cultivate root plants. Man is a most central figure of every Luo homestead (dala). The presence of a man in Luo homestead is personified by a cock and a tall stick, sticking out of the apex of the roof of his hut. If the man dies, the stick is cut and the cock slaughtered.
The Luos are primarly pastoralists who feed on milk, blood and meat from cattle and fish. They are fond of fish and have therefore kept close to the rivers and lakes. Leave a Comment
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Nairobi is the capital of Kenya situated in the central part of the country. It is modern, new build town, with large avenues and glass skycrapers. You wont se much of the traditional Kenyan way of life in the city centre or around it. The people who live here do not look alike to those you can meet in the other parts of the country, in short, Nairobi do not represeant the real soul of Kenya. Leave a Comment
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The Maasai belong to the group of plain Nilotes. They are found in Rift Valley province, and Northern Tanzania districts. The Maasai are nomadic pastoralists who belive that they are the only ones in this world who should own cattle. They are a legendary and most formidable warrior tribe. Their culture, however, is closely knit around cattle and the need to protect them. The Maasai also belive that pastoralism is superior activity to hunting or farming. A traditional Maasai greeting is "I hope your cattle are well".
The Maasai huts are barely tall enough with tiny windows. A spear in front of each hut announces the presence of the man and would serve as a warning to other men suitors. Leave a Comment
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The Pokot live in Western Kenya, around Cherengani hills. They have traditionally remained aloof from western cultural and developmental unfluences. Obsessed with passion for cattleownership, the Pokot daily sing a songs of praise to their cattle, telling them they are more beautiful and worth more than their women. According to the Pokot legend, every man's greatest desire is to posses a cow with one horn pointing forwards and the other one pointing backwards. Awig of painted mud on th head indicates a man has reached maturity. Leave a Comment
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The Kalenjin are people originally from Highland Nilotes comprising of several sub Groups. The word Kalenjin means I tell you or I say to you. The boys wear goat's or cow hides, while girls have long aprons made of cows hides. Distinguished warriors would wear leopard or monkeys skin. Kalenjin are mixed farmers. They grow tea as their major cash crop who grow subsistence crops like maize, millet, pumpkins and cassava. Interesting fact is that polugamy is practiced among Kalenjin people. Leave a Comment
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The Kikuyu people live in the most central part of the country. According to their mythology they belong to the family of Gikuyu and Mumbi who camee from the skies. The tribe is divided into nine clans from the nine daughters of Gikuyu and Mumbi.
Their activities are manily farming of food crops like yams, arrowroots, maize, beans, coffee and tea. They also keep cows and goats.
Like in many other Bantu communities' marriage is very important to the Kikuyu for continuity of the family. Polugamy is accepted in the community, however, marriage within a clans is not.
Kikuyu do not believe in burying their dead, undertakers in an evil forest dump the body after being rolled into a cow's skin. Leave a Comment
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Actualy, Mijikenda means nine tribes. The Mijikenda live in windowless loaf shaped huts. Each tribe has a Kaya, or traditional place where they go to appease ancestors. Apart from farming, hunting for bush pigs, bucks and antelopes is way of life. They also trap rodents, which they eat and consider delicacies.
The Mijikenda have blacksmiths whom they fear and associate with magic. Not many people can become blacksmiths, and they have an unusual greeting among themselves; one will greet another by bending on one knee and saying let the work continue. Leave a Comment
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