Kipsigis people

The Kipsigis or Kipsigiis are a Nilotic people contingent of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak a dialect of Kalenjin language identified by their community eponym, Kipsigis. It is observed that the Kipsigis and an aboriginal people native to Kenya known as Ogiek have a merged identity. The Kipsigis are the most numerous of the Kalenjin. The latest census population in Kenya put the Kipsigis at 1.972 Million speakers, accounting for 45% of all Kalenjin speaking people. They occupy the highlands of Kericho stretching from Timboroa to Mara River in the south, the west of Mau Escarpment in the east to Kebeneti in the west. They also occupy parts of Laikipia, Kitale, Nakuru, Narok, Trans Mara District, Eldoret and Nandi Hills. Apart from the Kalenjin, the other tribe in this group is the Tatonga of Western Tanzania. In their expansion Southwards, the Kipsigis and the Tatonga people reached present-day Shinyanga Area in Western Tanzania only for the former group to return to the Kericho area before some went back again going Southwards but could only settle at Angata Barigoi in Trans Mara next to the Tanzanian Border. { "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "properties": {}, "geometry": { "type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [ [ [ 35.592785, 0.371987 ], [ 35.580597, 0.391383 ], [ 35.585403, 0.404945 ], [ 35.59227, 0.407861 ], [ 35.705395, 0.360498 ], [ 35.720158, 0.365464 ], [ 35.733376, 0.357398 ], [ 35.735092, 0.36856 ], [ 35.74419, 0.378515 ], [ 35.761185, 0.376966 ], [ 35.824356, 0.367356 ], [ 35.868301, 0.370789 ], [ 35.888901, 0.376968 ], [ 35.91259, 0.410094 ], [ 35.928469, 0.409494 ], [ 35.965891, 0.419538 ], [ 35.979195, 0.472921 ], [ 36.054039, 0.557723 ], [ 36.046314, 0.570593 ], [ 36.034641, 0.580033 ], [ 36.009579, 0.569395 ], [ 35.974216, 0.555152 ], [ 35.946579, 0.558578 ], [ 35.933189, 0.55034 ], [ 35.905724, 0.547592 ], [ 35.891304, 0.526652 ], [ 35.854225, 0.505026 ], [ 35.833626, 0.492308 ], [ 35.837746, 0.468623 ], [ 35.830193, 0.465878 ], [ 35.827103, 0.474459 ], [ 35.

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Kipsigis people

Kalenjin people

The Kalenjin are a group of tribes designated as Highland Nilotes and are descended from Maliri people (thus related to Daasanach of Ethiopia.) The Kalenjin are cousins with Datooga people of Tanzania. In contrast, their designation groups them with other Nilotes including Maasai, Luo, Turkana and Nuer, Dinka among others. They are indigenous to East Africa, residing mainly in what was formerly the Rift Valley Province in Kenya and Eastern slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda.

Luo people

The Luo of Kenya and Tanzania are a Nilotic ethnic group native to western Kenya and the Mara Region of northern Tanzania in East Africa. The Luo are the fourth-largest ethnic group (10.65%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (17.13%), the Luhya (14.35%) and the Kalenjin (13.37%). The Tanzanian Luo population was estimated at 1.1 million in 2001 and 3.4 million in 2020. They are part of a larger group of related Luo peoples who inhabit an area ranging from South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, northern and eastern Uganda, southwestern Kenya, and northern Tanzania.