The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and northwards...
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Bantu root, the word Mumbi is also widely used by the Kamba ethnic community. Among the Kamba community, the name carries the same meaning as among the...
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borrows from the languages of some of the largest ethnic groups in Kenya, including Luhya, Gĩkũyũ, Luo and Kamba. Words are also borrowed from languages that...
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several terms derived from the Proto-Bantu "-ganda", such as the Kenyan Kamba ethnic group, also called Akamba or Wakamba; or the word kanda, which means...
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The term Kamba War has been used by historians to refer to a conflict that took place between the Kamba people and communities living in regions around...
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Afro-Paraguayans (category "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation)
by so-called Artiga's Cue -or "black of Kamba Cuá"-, which are descended from the Kamba people (a Kenyan ethnic group).[citation needed] They arrived in...
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to set up a school and mission at Yatta in 1894 was resisted by the Kamba ethnic community. The missionaries then penetrated into western Kenya and set...
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list of contemporary ethnic groups. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated...
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Demographics of Kenya (redirect from List of ethnic groups in Kenya)
2019. The largest native ethnic groups were the Kikuyu (8,148,668), Luhya (6,820,000), Kalenjin (6,358,113), Luo (5,066,966), Kamba (4,663,910), Somalis (2...
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Chaga people (category "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation)
conduct business in Pangani, the Kamba, Galla, and Nyamwezi are also familiar with the area. Chief Kivoi, a well-known Kamba trader, having personally climbed...
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Kamba/ˈkæmbə/, or Kikamba, is a Bantu language spoken by millions of Kamba people, primarily in Kenya, as well as thousands of people in Uganda, Tanzania...
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territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore...
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Multinational state (redirect from Multi-ethnic society)
the population. Together, the five largest groups—the Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Kamba, and Kalenjin—account for 70 percent of Kenyans. The major impediment to...
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Columbus Kamba Simango (1890-1966), often known as Kamba Simango, was an ethnographer, missionary, musician, performer and activist of Vandau ethnicity. Simango...
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Gamo people (category "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation)
than 40 communities, including Chencha, Bonke, Kucha, Garbansa, Zargula, Kamba, Dorze, Birbir, Ochello, Boroda, Ganta, Gacho Baba, Eligo, Shella, Kolle...
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communities of native speakers in Kenya as follows: Bantu Kikuyu 8.1 million Kamba 4.7 million Luhya 10 million (incl. Bukusu 1.2 million) Gusii 2.7 million...
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Shira people (category Ethnic groups in Gabon)
and recorded that each clan controlled its own affairs. Mulenda of the Kamba clan was the most important of the chiefs; he owned 300–400 slaves, and...
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Kikuyu people (category "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation)
their closely related Eastern Bantu neighbours the Embu, Meru, Mbeere, and Kamba moved into Kenya from points further north. From archaeological evidence...
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Mbeere people (category "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation)
their neighbours, the Kamba, Embu and Kikuyu. The Mbeere are of Bantu origin. Like the closely related Kikuyu, Embu, Meru and Kamba, they are concentrated...
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Githeri (section Kamba language)
Kenya. It is also popular in other parts of the country, such as with the Kamba people of the Eastern Province of Kenya. The primary ingredients for this...
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immigrant Kamba community is the second largest ethnic community in the county making almost 30% of the total population of the county. The Kamba people...
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separately. The Kilifi county side had a Giriama and Kamba Chief to take care of the interest of the two ethnic groups, whereas on the Kwale County side, i.e...
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Ilchamus people (category Ethnic groups in Kenya)
Samburu and il-Chamus form the northern division of the Maa languages. Kamba Meru "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume IV: Distribution of...
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headquarters are in the town of Kamba. Dandi LGA is home to approximately 135,891 residents, predominantly belonging to the Dendi ethnic sub-division of the Zarm-Songhai...
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response to events in Nagorno-Karabakh". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Kambas, Michele (30 September 2023). "Cyprus considers sheltering some Armenian...
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than 40 communities, including Chencha, Bonke, Kucha, Garbansa, Zargula, Kamba, Dorze, Birbir, Ochello, Boroda, Ganta, Gacho Baba, Eligo, Shella, Kolle...
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Kenyan Americans (category "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation)
early 2000s. Kenyan Americans come from ethnic groups such as the Kikuyu, Kisii, Luhya,Maasai people[Maasai] Kamba, Kalenjin, Meru or Luo people. The largest...
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Bantu peoples (category Articles using infobox ethnic group with image parameters)
anthu in Chichewa; batu in Lingala; bato in Duala; abanto in Gusii; andũ in Kamba and Kikuyu; abantu in Kirundi, Lusoga, Zulu, Xhosa, Runyoro and Luganda;...
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Ol Donyo Sabuk (in Maasai), or Kyanzavi in Kamba, is a mountain in Kwanzaa Division, Machako's County, William Northrup McMillan was the first non native...
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Mount Kenya (category Articles containing Kamba (Kenya)-language text)
Mount Kenya (Meru: Kĩrĩmaara, Kikuyu: Kĩrĩnyaga, Kamba: Ki nyaa, Embu: Kĩ nyaga) is an extinct volcano in Kenya and the second-highest peak in Africa...
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