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    The Okiek (Ogiek: [oɡiɛk]), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek, are a Southern Nilotic ethnic group native to Tanzania[citation needed] and Southern...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Groups that have been referred to as Dorobo include: Kaplelach Okiek and Kipchornwonek Okiek (Nilotic; Rift Valley Province, Kenya) Sengwer Mukogodo-Maasai...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    their parks financially sustainable. Indigenous groups, such as the Okiek people, are often challenged as not having land rights as many do not have formal...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo...
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    of Mount Kenya, thus the name Amiiru, meaning 'people of the forest'. [citation needed]The Ameru people comprise nine subgroups: the Igoji, Imenti, Tigania...
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    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...
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    The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. They are semi-nomadic pastoralists who primarily herd cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels...
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    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...
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    Nuer languages. Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili and English...
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  • tradition spoke a Kalenjin dialect that bears similarity to present-day Okiek languages. The 'Doko' with whom they bear close resemblance spoke Maasai...
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    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...
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  • privileged encounters with the hunter-gatherers of the Okiek people or, in Maasai language, Ndorobo people. During six years employment by the Tanganyika Veterinary...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    languages. The Kalenjin language, along with the languages of the Datooga people of Tanzania, the Maasai, Luo, Turkana, Nuer, Dinka among others are classified...
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  • Elgon–Mau Kalenjin Kupsabiny Sabaot Northern Kalenjin Markweeta Pökoot Okiek–Akie Akie Okiek Sample basic vocabulary of Kalenjin languages from van Otterloo...
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    African Great Lakes Region. They include: the Nandi, Kipsigis, Tugen, Keiyo, Okiek, Marakwet, Sengwer, Sabaot, Terik, Pokot and Sebei. The confederation came...
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    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...
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    The Taita people are an ethnic group in Kenya's Taita-Taveta County. They speak Kidawida or Kitaita, which belongs to the Bantu language family. The West-Bantu...
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    Gabra Sengwer Mijikenda Jibana Giriama Duruma Chonyi Swahili Taita Taveta Okiek Kenyan Asians White Kenyans Kenyan Arabs Diaspora Kenyan Americans Kenyan...
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    White people in Kenya or White Kenyans are those born in or resident in Kenya who descend from Europeans and/or identify themselves as White. There is...
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