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... 55 KB (6,554 words) - 17:10, 27 April 2024 |
neighboring non-Luhya languages. For example, the Bukusu people are ethnically Luhya, but the Bukusu dialect is a variety of Masaba. (See Luhya people for details... 5 KB (236 words) - 16:59, 8 March 2024 |
Maragoli (redirect from Maragoli tribe (Luhya)) ethnic group of the 6 million-strong Luhya nation in Kenya, numbering around 2.1 million, or 15% of the Luhya people according to the last Kenyan census... 15 KB (2,271 words) - 07:22, 17 June 2023 |
Bukusu (redirect from Bukusu tribe (Luhya)) The Bukusu people (Bukusu: Babukusu) are one of the 17 Kenyan tribes of the Luhya Bantu people of East Africa residing mainly in the counties of Bungoma... 22 KB (3,035 words) - 23:15, 15 April 2024 |
Luhya or Abaluyia may refer to: Luhya people Luhya language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Luhya. If an internal link... 156 bytes (41 words) - 13:56, 10 June 2021 |
Marachi (redirect from Marachi tribe (Luhya)) sixteen tribes of the Luhya people of Kenya, making up approximately one percent of the Luyha. They are one of the three Luhya groups occupying Busia... 972 bytes (107 words) - 20:32, 14 March 2024 |
Victor Wanyama (category Kenyan Luhya people) Victor Mugubi Wanyama (Kenyan English: [wɑˈɲɑːmɑ] ; born 25 June 1991) is a Kenyan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major... 41 KB (3,278 words) - 22:47, 7 April 2024 |
Bukusu dialect (redirect from Bukusu dialect (Luhya)) language spoken by the Bukusu tribe of the Luhya people of western Kenya. It is one of several ethnically Luhya dialects; however, it is more closely related... 5 KB (608 words) - 07:53, 3 March 2024 |
McDonald Mariga (category Kenyan Luhya people) McDonald Mariga Wanyama (pronounced [məkˈdɒnʌld məˈriːɡɑ wɑˈɲɑːmɑ] ; born 4 April 1987) is a Kenyan former professional footballer who played as a defensive... 19 KB (1,676 words) - 07:42, 22 April 2024 |
Michael Kijana Wamalwa (category Kenyan Luhya people) Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa (25 November 1944 – 23 August 2003) was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the... 8 KB (913 words) - 05:59, 17 January 2024 |
Samia language (redirect from Samia dialect (Luhya)) language spoken by the Luhya people of Uganda and Kenya. Ethnologue includes Songa as a dialect, but it may be a separate language. Luhya language Samia at... 1 KB (52 words) - 07:54, 3 March 2024 |
administrative provinces outside Nairobi. It is inhabited mainly by the Luhya people. Quakerism is widely practised here. Kenya's second highest mountain... 9 KB (636 words) - 20:00, 6 April 2024 |
Edwin Sifuna (category Kenyan Luhya people) Senatorial seat. He garnered 716,876 to clinch the seat and is now serving the people of Nairobi as their senator. In February 2023, he assumed the role of deputy... 8 KB (578 words) - 06:00, 6 March 2024 |
Musalia Mudavadi (category Kenyan Luhya people) family. He is of the ethnic Maragoli dialect, an extract of the populous Luhya community of western Kenya. After his late father Moses S. B. Mudavadi,... 22 KB (1,960 words) - 22:19, 31 March 2024 |
the Buganda people of Uganda The medieval Swahili city-states The Wanga Kingdom, home of the Wanga (AbaWanga) tribe of the Luhya people. The largest... 22 KB (2,828 words) - 13:40, 12 April 2024 |
Francis Atwoli (category Luhya people) Fr. Francis Lipwoni Atwoli, NOM (DZA) CBS, EBS, MBS (born 6 June 1949) is a Kenyan trade unionist who is currently serving as the Secretary General of... 9 KB (584 words) - 15:24, 14 January 2024 |
Wanga Kingdom (redirect from Wanga tribe (Luhya)) kingdom within Kenya, consisting of the Wanga (Abawanga) tribe of the Luhya people (Abaluyia). At its peak the kingdom covered an expansive area from Jinja... 19 KB (1,832 words) - 15:52, 31 March 2024 |
Great Rift Valley, Kenya (section People) language Omotik language Origins of Tutsi and Hutu Maasai people Elgeyo people Luhya people Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention Rift Valley Railways... 15 KB (1,708 words) - 05:03, 19 April 2024 |
323,230 people. They live wedged in between the Nandi, Luo and Luhya (Luyia) peoples. Among the Luo they are known as nyangóóri, but to the Terik, this... 4 KB (504 words) - 12:01, 26 April 2024 |
Nabongo Cultural Centre and shrine (category Bantu peoples) is a shrine and cultural centre dedicated to the Wanga Kingdom of the Luhya people in Kenya. The shrine contains the tombs of Wanga kings or Nabongo are... 5 KB (304 words) - 15:51, 31 March 2024 |
Moses Mudavadi (category Kenyan Luhya people) Moses Substone Budamba Mudavadi (1923-1989) was an influential politician from Sabatia, Kenya, in the early post-independence years under former president... 984 bytes (83 words) - 05:33, 30 January 2023 |
Cyrus Jirongo (category Kenyan Luhya people) Cyrus Shakhalaga Khwa Jirongo, popularly Cyrus Jirongo, is a politician and a former Member of Parliament in Kenya. Between 1978 and 1981 he went to Mang'u... 6 KB (609 words) - 16:17, 22 February 2023 |
Nabongo Mumia (category Kenyan Luhya people) economy. It was during this time that Nabongo Mumia became the first ever Luhya to own a vehicle and a motor cycle. During this time when the American Singer... 17 KB (1,948 words) - 17:06, 21 April 2024 |
Nyole language (Kenya) (redirect from Olunyole dialect (Luhya)) the Luhya people in Vihiga District, Kenya. There is 61% lexical similarity with a related but different Nyole dialect in Uganda. The Nyore people border... 1 KB (68 words) - 07:54, 3 March 2024 |
Eugene Wamalwa (category Kenyan Luhya people) Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa is a Kenyan politician who was the former Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Defense. Prior to that before 29 September 2021,... 6 KB (419 words) - 14:11, 19 April 2024 |
Moses Wetangula (category Kenyan Luhya people) projects on self-help basis and has been offering legal services to the local people. He has mobilised women and the youth to initiate income generating projects... 14 KB (1,270 words) - 12:05, 6 February 2024 |
Kabras (redirect from Kabras tribe (Luhya)) The Kabras, or Kabarasi, are a subtribe of the Luhya people of Kenya. They reside in Malava that is in the Kabras Division of Kakamega District, which... 4 KB (610 words) - 09:53, 16 September 2022 |
Ababu Namwamba (category Kenyan Luhya people) Ababu Namwamba E.G.H. (full name Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba) is a Kenyan politician and Cabinet secretary for Youth Affairs, Sports and the Arts, having... 8 KB (891 words) - 23:44, 5 October 2023 |