• Kavirondo is the former name of the region surrounding Kavirondo Gulf (now Winam Gulf) as well as of two native peoples living there under the regime of...
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    Africa. Kavirondo Gulf (Winam Gulf) and the surrounding area of "Kavirondo" derive from the same name. They were designated “Bantu" Kavirondo in contradistinction...
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  • The Dholuo dialect (pronounced [d̪ólúô]) or Nilotic Kavirondo, is a dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken by about 4.2 million Luo people...
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    crane, East African crowned crane, African crane, Eastern crowned crane, Kavirondo crane, South African crane, and crested crane, is a bird in the crane...
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    Luo people (redirect from Nilotic kavirondo)
    peoples. During the British colonial period, they were known as Nilotic Kavirondo. The exact location of origin of the Nilotic peoples is controversial...
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    SS Kavirondo was a steam tug on Lake Victoria in East Africa. She was named after a local Lake Victoria region and was one of many compact Lake Victoria...
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  • The Kavirondo barb (Enteromius sexradiatus) is a species of cyprinid fish. It is found only in Kenya. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. Its status...
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    British colonial government regazetted his region of management to North kavirondo equivalent to western region of Kenya today. This regazetement led to...
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  • Ramogi Gloria Muliro Harry Kimani Jabali Afrika Jason Dunford Jua Cali Kavirondo King Kaka Kleptomaniax Mejja Mercy Myra Mighty King Kong Monski Muroki...
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  • was created after Central Nyanza District, itself created from North Kavirondo District, was in 1968, split into Kisumu and Siaya districts. Kisumu district...
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    J. H. Speke’s map of the Nile sources (1863) Baringo is confused with Kavirondo Gulf of Victoria Nyanza; it figures in Sir H. M. Stanley’s map (1877)...
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    (1949). "Circumcision And Initiation Rites" (PDF). The Bantu of North Kavirondo: Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 335. doi:10.4324/9780429485817...
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  • Kakamega was created in 1963 by the colonial government off the North Kavirondo District that existed from the 1920s. The district had four constituencies:...
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  • Kisii. The district was created during the colonial period from the South Kavirondo District. The district is inhabited mostly by the Gusii people. Nyamira...
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    Guinea to south-western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Kavirondo little grey greenbul (E. a. kavirondensis) - (van Someren, 1920): Originally...
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    undoubtedly caused a diminution in the number of ngege in those parts of the Kavirondo Gulf, the northern shore of the lake, the Sesse Islands and Smith's Sound...
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    guttatipennis Stål, 1859 Platymeris insignis Germar & Berendt, 1856 Platymeris kavirondo Jeannel, 1917 Platymeris laevicollis Distant, 1919 Platymeris nigripes...
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    farmlands at the time of the couple's arrival, but there were also Wakamba, Kavirondo, Swahili and Masai. Initially, Bror worked the farm, but it soon became...
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  • counties in Nyanza Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii Town, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania). It is spoken natively...
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    of commercial catches at sites all around the lake. The steam tug SS Kavirondo was chartered from the Kenya and Uganda Railway for the six months in...
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    British armed the Uganda Railway lake steamers SS William Mackinnon, SS Kavirondo, SS Winifred, and SS Sybil as improvised gunboats. They trapped Kingani...
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    were the Jo k'Ajok and Jo k'Owiny. The Ajok Luo moved deeper into the Kavirondo Gulf; their descendants are the present-day Jo Kisumo and Jo Karachuonyo...
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    (launched after Clement Hill) was purely a cargo ship. The 228 ton SS Kavirondo launched in 1913 was a tugboat. Two more tugboats from Bow, McLachlan...
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  • Luoland (historically "Kavirondo") is the tribal homeland of the Kenya Luo (also called Jo-Luo or Kavirondo), a people of western Kenya, also extending...
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    included) culturally and linguistically united clans. Once known as the Kavirondo, multiple small tribes in North Nyanza came together under the new name...
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    recognised as an anti-colonial movement. In 1913, Onyango Dunde of central Kavirondo proclaimed to have been sent by the serpent god of Lake Victoria, Mumbo...
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    Lumbwa. Ugaya is the part nearest to the Lake, thickly inhabited by the Kavirondo and rich in cattle. Kossova or Kisii is a hilly district behind Ugaya...
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  • itself was carved out of the South Nyanza District formerly known as South Kavirondo District. In 2013, the district's boundaries before 1992 were used used...
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    include farming and tourism. Lake Victoria Kakapel Monument Samia Hills Kavirondo Rocks Yala Swamp Malaba Sanctuary River Nzoia Sio Siteki Swamp Busia county...
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    the two councils (which would later merge and became known as the South Kavirondo Local Native Council), voted to provide Sh. 120,000 for the establishment...
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