This article is about East African ethnic group. For the South American sub-language, see Bora–Witoto languages.
Borana
Borana Oromo Child from Ethiopia (1960)
Regions with significant populations
874,000 Ethiopia, 276,236 Kenya[1]
Languages
Oromo[2]
Religion
Majority Sunni Islam with minorities of Christianity and Waaqeffanna[3][4][5][6][7]
Related ethnic groups
Barento Oromo[8]
The Boorana (also known as Borana)[9] are one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people. A Cushitic ethnic group, they primarily inhabit the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia and the former Eastern Province in northern Kenya, specifically Marsabit County.[10] They speak a distinct dialect of the Oromo language by the same name, Boorana.[10] The Boorana people are notable for practicing the Gadaa system without interruption.[11]
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^2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia
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The Boorana (also known as Borana) are one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people. A Cushitic ethnic group, they primarily inhabit the Borena...
individuals within a party. The five Gadaa parties have different names among Boorana, Maccaa-Tuulama, Arsii, Gujii and Ituu-Humbannaa. A number of scholars...
this movement, the Oromos were divided into two major confederations, the Boorana and the Barento, who lived in the west and east of the Rift Valley respectively...
not organise and centralise further into complex societies, such as the Boorana and the chiefdoms of Sierra Leone, and are rarely discussed in political...
Barava-Bajun region, the NFD of Kenya, and Bale province in Ethiopia before the Boorana and Warday Oromo. Garre also founded cities like Barawe, and Kismaayo Garre...
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Borena (Oromo: Boorana) is a zone in Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Borena is named after one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo People. Borena is bordered...
become generalized to cover peoples who long knew themselves primarily as Boorana (Boräna), Guğği, Mäč̣č̣a and the like. Even so, Amharic-speaking Šäwans...
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Northern Kenyan communities such as the Samburu, Gabra, Daasanach, El Molo, Boorana, Somali, Pokot, Turkana and Rendile. "Wajir Country Integrated Development...
Samut Sakhon Boorana won because Phayao withdrew 2 Lampang won because Pluak Daeng withdrew 1 Nara United won because Samut Sakorn Boorana refused to travel...
the farm tools used by Malawi farmers in Agroforestry. Additionally,The Boorana people use observations of animal behaviors and entrails as well as celestial...
1958) D. boliviana (Alexander, 1930) D. boniniana (Alexander, 1972) D. boorana (Theischinger, 1994) D. borinquenia (Alexander, 1968) D. boulariensis (Hynes...
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