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    a district in Kenya, Keiyo Line a railway line in Japan or Elgeyo escarpment The Elgeyo (also known as Keiyo) are an ethnic group who are part of the...
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    Elgeyo-Marakwet County is one of Kenya's 47 counties, which is located in the former Rift Valley Province with its capital and largest town as Iten. It...
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    reaches into Kenya. The Elgeyo escarpment forms part of the western wall. The Kerio Valley lies between the Tugen Hills and the Elgeyo escarpment at an elevation...
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    Kerio Valley (section People)
    Kerio Valley lies between the Tugen Hills and the Elgeyo Escarpment in Kenya. It sits at an elevation of 1,000 meters in the Great Rift Valley. The isolated...
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    These migrants were closely related to Luo peoples found in Uganda, especially the Acholi and Padhola people. As they moved into Kenya and Tanzania, they...
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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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    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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  • Kalenjin people of Kenya Elgeyo people (Keiyo people) Kipsigis people Marakwet people Nandi people Pokot people Terik people Tugen people Sebei people Kalenjin...
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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 Rift Valley, a community known as the Chok (later Suk) occupied the Elgeyo escarpment. Pokot oral history describes their way of life, as that of the...
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  • Nilotes are subdivided into two groups, the Kalenjin and the Datog. Kalenjin: Elgeyo, Kipsigis, Marakwet, Nandi, Pokot, Sabaot, Lembus, Terik and Tugen [Keiyo]...
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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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    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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  • Kipchumba Murkomen (category People from Elgeyo-Marakwet County)
    Roads, Transport, and Public Works in Kenya. He served as the senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County from 2013 to 2022. He is the son of Johana Murkomen Kanda...
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    Iten (category Elgeyo-Marakwet County)
    Iten[needs IPA] is a town in Elgeyo-Marakwet County in the Republic of Kenya. Iten serves as the capital and is the largest town in the county. The town...
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    the Kisii, the Meru, and the Mijikenda. The Swahili people are descended from Wangozi Bantu peoples that intermarried with Arab immigrants. The Kikuyu...
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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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    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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    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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    the voracious cormorant which is known as mnandi in Kiswahili. The Nandi people are one among a group of communities that share cultural traits and a Southern...
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  • The Chok were a society that lived on the Elgeyo Escarpment in Kenya. It is noted that the old men living in Pokot during the early 20th century were unanimous...
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  • all Kalenjin speakers. Kipsigis is closely related to Nandi, Keiyo (Keyo, Elgeyo), South Tugen (Tuken), and Cherangany. The Kipsigis territory is bordered...
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    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...
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  • Keiyo (Elgeyo) is a Kalenjin language spoken in western Kenya, in the southern part of the district of Elgeyo-Marakwet. The Elgeyo refer to themselves...
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    Kipsigis at 1,972,000 speakers, accounting for 45% of all Kalenjin speaking people. They occupy the highlands of Kericho stretching from Timboroa to the Mara...
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    Kenyan Kalenjin people. They fall under the highland nilotes category. They occupy Baringo County and some parts of Nakuru County and Elgeyo Marakwet County...
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    highlands of southern Ethiopia. They are closely related to the wider Oromo people and practice Islam as their religion. According to Y-DNA analysis by Hirbo...
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    The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels...
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    "Athi". Many Ogiek speakers have shifted to the languages of surrounding peoples: the Akiek in northern Tanzania now speak Maasai and the Akiek of Kinare...
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    each Marakwet belongs. There were 119,969 Marakwet people in 2019. Most Marakwet today live in the Elgeyo-Marakwet County, a notably beautiful and picturesque...
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