The Okiek (Ogiek: [oɡiɛk]), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek, are a Southern Nilotic ethnic group native to Tanzania[citation needed] and Southern...

Okiek or Ogiek may refer to: the Okiek people the Ogiek language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Okiek. If an internal...

Ogiek (also Okiek and Akiek) is a Southern Nilotic language of the Kalenjin family spoken or once spoken by the Ogiek peoples, scattered groups of hunter-gatherers...

Groups that have been referred to as Dorobo include: Kaplelach Okiek and Kipchornwonek Okiek (Nilotic; Rift Valley Province, Kenya) Sengwer Mukogodo-Maasai...

Valley region of Kenya. The Athi are in some accounts associated with the Okiek people. Fadiman, J. (1994). When We Began There Were Witchmen. California: University...

The Pokot people (also spelled Pökoot) live in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in...

preserved in return for carbon credits. Indigenous groups, such as the Okiek people, are often challenged as not having land rights as many do not have formal...

Akiek may refer to: Okiek people, an ethnic group in Kenya and Tanzania Ogiek language, a language spoken by the Okiek people Akie people, an ethnic group...

ruled that the Kenyan government must pay the evicted and displaced Okiek people 157,850,000 shillings for decades of material and moral damages, recognize...

The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are Nilotic ethnic group who predominantly live in Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and northwards...

Luo peoples. The Luo moved into western Kenya from Uganda between the 15th and 20th centuries in four waves. They were closely related to Luo peoples found...

The Iteso (or people of Teso) are a Nilotic ethnic group in eastern Uganda and western Kenya. Teso refers to the traditional homeland of the Iteso, and...

of Mount Kenya, thus the name Amiiru, meaning 'people of the forest'. [citation needed]The Ameru people comprise nine subgroups: the Igoji, Imenti, Tigania...

the Kisii, the Meru, and the Mijikenda. The Swahili people are descended from Wangozi Bantu peoples that intermarried with Arab immigrants. The Kikuyu...

The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Traditionally, they are semi-nomadic pastoralists who primarily herd cattle but also keep sheep...

Kalenjin and Nuer. Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania—Swahili and English....

Maasai people also due to intermarriage prior to colonization. The Gĩkũyũ people between Thika and Mbeere are closely related to the Kamba people who speak...

Abagusii may have been assimilated from the Luhya and Olusuba speaking Suba people, which originated from west of Lake Victoria. The majority of Abagusii are...

privileged encounters with the hunter-gatherers of the Okiek people or, in Maasai language, Ndorobo people. During six years employment by the Tanganyika Veterinary...

representation in archaeological sites, and on foraging ways of life amongst Okiek people of the western Mau Escarpment, Kenya. She has also worked to conserve...

Datooga Kalenjin Elgon languages Kupsabiny Sabaot Nandi–Markweta Kipsigis Okiek Pökoot Tatogoa Datooga Omotik Proto-Kalenjin has been reconstructed by Franz...

The Luhya (also known as Abaluyia or Luyia) are a Bantu people and the second largest ethnic group in Kenya. The Luhya belong to the larger linguistic...

African Great Lakes Region. They include: the Nandi, Kipsigis, Tugen, Keiyo, Okiek, Marakwet, Sengwer, Sabaot, Terik, Pokot and Sebei. The confederation came...

write about art. Thus a review by Locke of the Okiek Portraits exhibition of photographs of Okiek people in traditional dress appeared in Creative Loafing...

clan name, or Akiek, which is also used for the Okiek) are a Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic people living in south western Simanjiro District of Manyara...

The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot...

north-east, other Kalenjin people are found, mainly the Nandi. East from the Kipsigis, in the Mau forests, live some Okiek speaking tribes. /r/ can be...

Njemps), are a Maa-speaking people living south and southeast of Lake Baringo, Kenya. They numbered approximately 32,949 people in 2019 and are closely related...

languages. The Kalenjin language, along with the languages of the Datooga people of Tanzania, the Maasai, Luo, Turkana, Nuer, Dinka among others are classified...

which is well documented. According to Grassivaro-Gallo and Viviani, some people believe the custom was brought to the Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula...