The Lumbwa (also Lumbua, Umpua, Humba and Wakwavi) were a pastoral community which inhabited southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The term Lumbwa has...
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Lumbwa is a settlement in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. Railway stations in Kenya Lumbwa people v t e...
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The Lumbwa Treaty event took place on 13 October 1889, in Lumbwa (Kipkelion town today,) in Kericho between the Kipsigis led by Menya Araap Kisiara and...
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Gelai Lumbwa is an administrative ward in the Longido District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population...
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(1994), "The Parakuyo (earlier also called Ilparakuyo, Baraguyu, Kwavi, Lumbwa, and Iloikop) are a Maa-speaking ethnic group scattered over a large area...
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Kipsigis people (section Lumbwa Treaty)
and the British colonial government referred to the Kipsigis people as Lumbwa and Kwavi. The pre-colonial traditional occupations of the Kipsigis included...
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Second Mutai (section Acculturation of the Lumbwa)
Mutai (Maa; meaning Disaster) is a term used by the Maa-speaking communities of Kenya to describe a period of wars, usually triggered by disease and/or...
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Settlement of Nandi (section Elgon & Lumbwa origins)
from Lumbwa. From the Kalenjin narrative of origin, a distinct Chemwal (predating Nandi) identity appears to have formed when the Nandi and Lumbwa sections...
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of the Lumbwa. Meru oral history describes the arrival of their ancestors at Mount Kenya where they interacted with this community. The Lumbwa occupied...
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Ngaa people (section Lumbwa)
Meru traditions recorded in Mwimbi and Muthambi recount that the pastoral Lumbwa lived in association with a hunting community remembered as Agumba (or Gumba)...
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was until 1902 when Lumbwa District transferred to the East Africa Protectorate. Between 1921 and 1922 it was renamed South Lumbwa District, till 1935...
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reptilian 'bounder' that comes up the Maggori River, out of the lake the Lumbwa have christened Dingonek. And it's real prize money that beauty would fetch...
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21,702 Katheka Kai 17,485 Kiima-Kimwe 22,741 Kimutwa 17,265 Kola 14,567 Lumbwa 13,609 Masaku 19,980 Mua Hills 8,579 Mumbuni 49,802 Muvuti 12,156 Mutituni...
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range and the Lake, various parts of which bear the name Ugaya, Kossova and Lumbwa. Ugaya is the part nearest to the Lake, thickly inhabited by the Kavirondo...
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Elang'ata Dapash Engarenaibor Engikaret Gelai Lumbwa Gelai Meirugoi Iloirienito Kamwanga Kitumbeine Kimokouwa Longido Matale Mundarara Namanga Olmolog...
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Katanga. The major roads cutting through the settlement are, Digo Road, Lumbwa Street, Meru Road, Lamu Road and Munyema Street. It existed in the 1920s...
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the 20th century is as follows; From Elgon & Lumbwa (Kipsigis) Kipoiis Kipamwi Kipkenda Kipiegen From Lumbwa (Kipsigis) Tungo Kipaa Kipasiso and Kapchemuri...
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and settlement of the British colonialists in Kenya; Sotik being part of Lumbwa reserve that was annexed from the Kipsigis after Sotik Massacre in 1905...
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21,702 Katheka Kai 17,485 Kiima-Kimwe 22,741 Kimutwa 17,265 Kola 14,567 Lumbwa 13,609 Masaku 19,980 Mua Hills 8,579 Mumbuni 49,802 Muvuti 12,156 Mutituni...
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through Kericho County with railway stations at Mau Summit, Londiani, Kedowa, Lumbwa, Kipkelion and Fort Ternan. Fort Ternan was previously used as a halfway...
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moving to Kileleshwa in 1935, taking its roots from Kenya Grange School at Lumbwa Pembroke House (1927): established in Gilgil, Nakuru County. It was named...
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Muhoroni Timboroa Koru Spiral Fort Ternan Equator Spiral Kipkelion Makutano Lumbwa Maji Mazuri Kedowa Sabatia Londiani Esageri Mau Summit Visoi Molo Rongai...
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only in riverine areas. Five settlements surround the forest: Alaililai, Lumbwa, Meirugoi, Magadini, and Loondolou Esirwa. The main socioeconomic activity...
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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 Kalenjin...
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[who] took refuge in the Nyando valley but were wiped out by the Nandi and Lumbwa...It was from them that the Nandi obtained their system of rule by medicine-men...
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The ancestors of the main body of what constitutes the so called Nandi-Lumbwa group, came beyond doubt, from the north. There is a distinct tradition...
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divisions as the scale of operations grew. 14 August No.15 Company from Lumbwa 23 August; about 300 Maasai auxiliaries 25 September; half of No.10 Company...
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Chemwal people Loikop people Chok people Sengwer people Maliri people Lumbwa people Oropom people Yaaku people Lane, Paul J. (4 July 2013). Mitchell...
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[who] took refuge in the Nyando valley but were wiped out by the Nandi and Lumbwa...It was from them that the Nandi obtained their system of rule by medicine-men...
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One Company, 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles. 30 Rifles Police. 300 Lumbwa levies. On 2 June, No. I Column marched from Njoro to Neilson's Farm on...
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