Kikuyu's are known to
have imigrated to their present land from northeast of mt. kenya, tehn
called "Kirinyaga", Like the Maasai their way of dressing ,
Traditions had similarities, thier way of advaning into aldult was
marked by groups names and respective rituals at each stage. For
both maasai and Kikuyu tribes, young girls andboys are to date still
circumsised. Traditionaly the Kikuyus had no tribal or clan chiefs
until the colonial administration. Land sisputes were being
settled by the Elders in the district. The strongly belive in the
ancestral world where the dead has power for good and bad.
The do belive their God "Ngai' visiting places is Kirinyaga,"Mt.
kenya" the place of brightness. Today Kikuyus ar prominet
businesmen and most politicians.
Kalejin
tribe.
most of the kalejin
peopkle ar eon theRift Valley. They include Nanids Terik, Tugen, Elkony,
Sabaot, Pokot, Marakwet and Kipsigis.
Turkana
Turkana are the main people
of the western shore of
the lake. Linguistically, the Turkana are related to
the maa-speaking Samburu and Maasai. They did not
traditionally practice circumcision. They are said to
have moved east from their old homeland on the borders
of Sudan and Uganda in 17th century. They are more
indivindualistic than most Kenyan people and they show
a disregard for the ties of clan and family that must
have emerged through repeated famines and wars.
Although essentially papstoralists, they are always on
the move to the next spot of grazing, they do grow
crops when they can get seed and when the rains are
sufficient. With characteristic pragmatism, the
Turkana have scorned the taboo against fish so
prevalent among helders, and fishing is a vibale
option that is increasingly popular. Relations with
their neighbours especially the merille to the north
of the lake and the pokot tothe southwest, have often
been openly aggressive. Violence is no longer in the
air down at furguson's Gulf - though you might see
older Turkana men with scars on their arms and chests
to indicate who they've killed, females on the upper
arm and chest, males on the right.
Toposa raiders from Sudan are thought to have killed
thousands of Turkana in recent years.
Samburu
They
are historically close to the Maasai, their
languages are nearly the same and culturally they are
virtually indistinguishable to an outsider. Many in
the driest areas of their range in the northeast have
turned to camel herding as a better insurance drought
than cattle. The Samburu age-set system like many
others in Africa, they are ruled by old men and they
are assured, by the system they manipulate of having
the first choice of young women to marry. Worriors are
forced to wait, until their thirties, before
initiation into adulthood, marriage and children
brings them a measure of real respect. For women the
situation is very different. They are married at
sixteen but they may continue affairs with their
morani (boyfriends) the unmarried juniors of their
new, much older husbands. The girls spend most of
their lives married than their male peers, which
accounts for polygamy. For warriors and their
girlfriends, there's is a special young people's
language which has to be modified with the initiation
of every age-set, so that it's kept secret from the elders.