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Bukusu
Babukusu
Total population
Over 1.2m
Regions with significant populations
Kenya
Over 1.2m (est.)
Languages
Bukusu dialect Swahili
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Maragoli Tachoni Kabras Gisu
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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 and Trans Nzoia. They are the largest tribe of the Luhya nation, with 1,188,963 identifying as Bukusu in the 2019 Kenyan census. They speak the Bukusu dialect.
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Africa. The Gisu dialect in eastern Uganda is mutually intelligible with Bukusu, spoken by ethnic Luhya in western Kenya. Masaba is the local name of Mount...
Bungoma was named from eng'oma, the Bukusu word for "drums". The town was originally a meeting place for Bukusu elders. The sound of drums would emanate...
neighboring non-Luhya languages. For example, the Bukusu people are ethnically Luhya, but the Bukusu dialect is a variety of Masaba. (See Luhya people...
Nyanza came together under the new name Baluhya between 1950 and 1960. The Bukusu are the largest Luhya subtribe and account for almost 50% of the entire...
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ethnic group of the Masaba people in eastern Uganda, closely related to the Bukusu people of Kenya. Bamasaba live mainly in the Mbale District of Uganda on...
follows: Bantu Kikuyu 8.1 million Kamba 4.7 million Luhya 10 million (incl. Bukusu 1.2 million) Gusii 2.7 million Meru 2.0 million Mijikenda/Giriama ca. 1...
former territories, including the Iteso, Karamojong, Pokot, Turkana and Bukusu. They are or were found in scattered pockets between the Turkwel River,...
for ages. The first European to reach the Bukusu was Joseph Thomson, who upon arriving in 1883, found the Bukusu living in fortified villages surrounded...
1,669 Bungoma County Siritanyi 1,968 Bungoma County South Bukusu 10,827 Bungoma County West Bukusu 4,606 Bungoma County Total 52,428 *September 2005....
traditional lyre played by the Luhya ethnic group of Kenya (including the Bukusu subgroup). It has seven strings. Other varieties of litungu are used by...
"Circumcision rite among the Bukusu of western Kenya". Youtube. Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. 12 August 2014. "Bukusu Post-Circumcision Rites Continue...
namely- Kabuchai/Chwele, West Nalondo, Bwake/Luuya, Mukuyuni and South Bukusu. "Constituency – Constituencies in Kenya". softkenya. Retrieved 9 June 2018...
ethnoherpetological knowledge – notes written by a Bukusu-speaking research assistant from western Kenya: Wepukhulu, D. M. 1992. Bukusu Ethnozoology (Reptiles and Amphibians)...
1876 "on the East of the Mountain, there are the Bukusu who are greater bandu befwe navasima. The Bukusu have produced many prominent people that have served...
Chairman of FORD-Kenya. Musikari Kombo hails from the larger Luhya community Bukusu sub tribe Balunda clan (descendants of Mulunda, believed to have migrated...
formation of Endebess constituency. The Watlrd is made up of Sabaot, Nandi, Bukusu, Turkana, and Pokot ethnic groups. He vied on a URP (URP) ticket and emerged...
keniensis. Mount Elgon and its tributaries are home to five tribes: the Bukusu, the Bagisu, the Sapinjek, the Sabaot, and the Ogiek, better known in the...
led to capturing of non-Wanga tribes into slavery such as Luo-Nyanza and Bukusu who were also enemies of the Wanga kingdom because of their repeated insurgents...
uniform-coloured drink. The Pojulu people of South Sudan also sell an alcohol by the same name and so do the Bukusu tribe of Kenya. Lugbara cuisine Tonto (beverage)...
Elijah Masinde (c.1911–1987) was a Bukusu activist. Born around 1910 – 1912 in Kimilili, Bungoma District, Masinde wa Nameme okhwa Mwasame was initiated...
attached to the name Muntu, the legendary figure who founded the Gisu and Bukusu tribes. The creation myth of the people of Buganda, Uganda, includes a figure...
predominant community of the Luhya sub-tribe, the Wanga and partly the Bukusu are the natives. The wanga are the most influential in the area of Matungu...
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