Kisii Tribe

The Kisii tribe inhabit an area in the western highlands east of Lake Victoria. The area is dominated by Nilotic-speaking groups with just this pocket of the Kuria-speaking Gusii. The Kisii Tribe speaking people are the 6th largest community in Kenya, and one of the fastest growing populations in the world. This is mostly rooted in their cultural beliefs of having many children for security in old age. [Read more…] about Kisii Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions

Kikuyu Tribe

Kikuyu Culture – The largest of Kenya’s tribes, the Kikuyu tribe live in area around Mount Kenya where, at the dawn the colonial era, they came into violent conflict with the European settlers, to whom large tracts of Kikuyu people homeland had been apportioned by the colonial government [Read more…] about Kikuyu Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions

Luhya Tribe – Kenya’s Second Largest Ethnic Tribe

Luhya people: The Luhya tribe, also known as Abaluhya, Baluhya, or Abaluyia, are a bantu tribe living in the agriculturally fertile Western region of Kenya. They are neighbors to some of the nilotic tribes including Luo, Kalenjin, Maasai and Teso (Iteso). [Read more…] about Luhya Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions

Mijikenda Tribes

The Mijikenda Tribes are a Kenya coastal Bantu tribe that consists of nine closely related sub-tribes. In the past, the Mijikenda people was also referred to as the Nyika tribe, a near-derogatory term implying bush people. “Mijikenda” literally means nine homes or nine homesteads (in Swahili), referring to the common ancestry of the Mijikenda people. The nine Mijikenda sub-tribes are believed to be nine different homes of the same tribe. Each sub-tribe speaks its own dialect of the Mijikenda language. [Read more…] about Mijikenda Tribes, People, Language, Culture and Traditions

Closely related to the Maasai, and in fact speaking the same language, the Samburu occupy an arid area directly north of Mt Kenya. It seems that when the Maasai migrated to the area from Sudan, some headed east (and became the Samburu) while the bulk of them continued south to the area they occupy today. [Read more…] about Samburu Tribe, People, Language, Culture and Traditions