• The Pokomo people are a Bantu ethnic group of southeastern Kenya. Their population in Kenya was 112,075 in 2019. They are a distinct ethnic group with...
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  • Pokomo may refer to: Pokomo people Pokomo language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pokomo. If an internal link led you...
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  • clashes between the Orma and Pokomo peoples of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least fifty-two people. The violence was the worst...
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  • Pokomo (Kipfokomo) is a Bantu language spoken primarily along the East African coast near Tana River in the Tana River District by the Pokomo people of...
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  • (India—Assam) Mbau (Kenya— Kilimanjaro region of the Rift Valley) Mbothe (Pokomo people of Kenya) Mechiwa (Bali) Mefuvha Melegayası (Turkey) The board is 2×9...
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  • is a traditional mancala game played by the Pokomo people that live along the Tana River, in Kenya. Pokomo do not traditionally build gameboards; they...
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  • Kenya Music Adviser. The anthem was based on a traditional tune sung by Pokomo mothers to their children. "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yet" is notable for being one...
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    out between the Pokomo and Orma resulting in almost 200 dead people. The cause of the conflicts were Orma people encroaching on the Pokomo agricultural area...
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    Christians and 1% of people in other religions (including Atheism). The major ethnic groups are the Orma,Somali (Wardey) and pokomo, Orma being the largest...
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  • The Swahili people (Swahili: WaSwahili, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area...
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  • 2012 Tana River District 52 Ethnic-communal clashes between Orma and Pokomo people Westgate shopping mall attack 21–24 September 2013 Westlands, Nairobi...
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  • districts of the Coast Province of Kenya The major ethnic groups are the Pokomo, many of whom are farmers, and the Orma and Wardey, who are predominantly...
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    The Hinterland people (The Mijikenda, Pokomo, and Segeju peoples) grew food that the coastal Swahili people depended on. This trade relationship was...
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    The Bantu peoples are an indigenous ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The...
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    97-132, In: A.H.J. Prins 1952.The Coastal Tribes of the North-Eastern Bantu (Pokomo, Nyika, Teita), London: International African Institute N. Vogt & J. Wiesenhütter:...
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  • blended Sabaki Bantu, Comoro, Pokomo, Iranian, Arabic and Indian words and structure reflecting the syncretic fusion of people from diverse backgrounds that...
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  • Danson Mungatana (category Living people)
    currently a member of United Democratic Alliance. He was born in 1970 to a Pokomo father and a Taita mother who raised him up together with his four brothers...
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  • climate and prolonged drought. Population growth aggravated the problem. The people live in a pastoral system, moving around wherever resources can be found...
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    Orma and Pokomo group in the Tana River District who have historically fought over grazing, farmland and water. On 18 November 2012, 10 people were killed...
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    1980; Nurse 2000 E70: Nyika-Taita group E71 pkb Pokomo (Pfokomo), Buu, Upper Pokomo (E71A), Lower Pokomo (E71B, Malachini) Nurse and Hinnebusch 1993 E70:...
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  • Robert A. Leonard (category Living people)
    to read Italian, and has structural knowledge of Giriama, Kamba, Rabai, Pokomo (Kenya), Shona (Zimbabwe), Thai, and Arabic. Leonard has assisted in solving...
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  • Arab ... said to have Pokomo blood." Ritchie & von Sicard 2020, p. 4, n10, define this as "free men, inhabitants of the place, people of mixed Persian, Arab...
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  • Alfred Claud Hollis (category British Kenya people)
    River's Maasai collections. He also stole the Ngaji sacred drum of the Pokomo tribe and donated it to the British museum G. H. Mungeam, "Hollis, Sir (Alfred)...
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    those who tend not to intermarry with the Wapokomo, those of mixed Wambwera-Pokomo origin, and the 'pure' Wapokomo, in descending order, make up the intermediate...
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    Giriama (Mlala); Kamba (Mukoma); Kambe (Mkoma); Mbeere (Irara); Orma (Kone); Pokomo (Mkoma); Pokot (Tangayiween); Rendile (Baar); Samburu (Iparwa); Sanya (Auwaki);...
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    celebrations. The anthem bears an original African traditional tune from the Pokomo tribe in the coast. Kalume was born in Dagamra division of Bate location...
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    communities that embraced Islam en-masse. Some of these included the Digo and Pokomo of the Lower Tana region. From these communities Islam slowly penetrated...
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  • A. H. J. Prins (category People from Harderwijk)
    and sixteen grandchildren. The Coastal Tribes of the Northeastern Bantu: Pokomo, Nyika, Teita (1952). East-African Age-Class Systems: An Inquiry into the...
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    561 0.52 0 Shungwaya Freedom Party 3,748 0.43 1 Coast People's Party 1,693 0.19 0 Tana River Pokomo Union 699 0.08 0 African independents 13,917 1.59 1...
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