The Pokot people (also spelled Pökoot) live in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in Uganda. They form a section of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak the Pökoot language, which is broadly similar to the related Marakwet, Nandi, Tuken and other members of the Kalenjin language group.
The Pokotpeople (also spelled Pökoot) live in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region...
Chemtai Salpeter. Pokotpeople are the main inhabitants of the county, and there is also a minority community of Sengwer. Religion in West Pokot County Mount...
Pokot or Pökoot may refer to: the Pokotpeople the Pokot language Spoor (film), a 2017 Polish film West Pokot County, Kenya This disambiguation page lists...
promotion among the Marakwets and the Pokots. War between them ended in the year 2000, marked by the killing of 47 people in Murkutwa Marakwet, 26 km east...
while asserting that conflicts between Samburu and the neighboring Pokotpeople was the result of both sides starving because they had more cattle than...
Argo-pastoral Pokot: Analyzing ethnicity and clanship within a spatial framework. Universiteit Van Amsterdam. "Dinka". Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa...
Bogoria and Lake Kamnarok. Baringo is bordered by Turkana County and West Pokot County to the North, Samburu County and Laikipia County to the East, Nakuru...
are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and...
aboriginal inhabitants of much of Karamoja in Uganda, Mt. Elgon area and West Pokot, Trans Nzoia and Turkana regions in Kenya. Their descendants were largely...
30 November 2019, a landslide in Pokot, Northwest Kenya was triggered by heavy rainfall and killed at least 52 people. The landslide began around 2:30 a...
Nuer languages. Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, being Swahili and English...
Kalenjin people of Kenya Elgeyo people (Keiyo people) Kipsigis people Marakwet people Nandi peoplePokotpeople Terik people Tugen people Sebei people Kalenjin...
the Elgeyo Escarpment in Kenya. It is noted that the old men living in Pokot during the early 20th century were unanimous in declaring that; there always...
This event signified the establishment of the pastoral Chok, i.e Pokot, community. Pokot traditions recall that the victory came when "... there arose a...
country in the north known as Emetab Burgei, which means the hot country. The people are said to have traveled southwards, passing through Mount Elgon or Tulwetab...
beginning 1902 the British colonial administration collected taxes from the Pokotpeople. Also as a result of colonial influences trade in the district was improved...
These migrants were closely related to Luo peoples found in Uganda, especially the Acholi and Padhola people. As they moved into Kenya and Tanzania, they...
The Iteso (or people of Teso) are a Nilotic ethnic group in eastern Uganda and western Kenya. Teso refers to the traditional homeland of the Iteso, and...
Uganda and the Turkana and Pokotpeoples from neighbouring Kenya. These challenges date to the 1950s and 1960s. Most of the people from the northern part...
the late 19th century. The Nandi word Sekker (cowrie shell) was used by Pokot elders to describe one section of a community that occupied the Elgeyo escarpment...
Maasai people also due to intermarriage prior to colonization. The Gĩkũyũ people between Thika and Mbeere are closely related to the Kamba people who speak...
The Kamba or Akamba (sometimes called Wakamba) people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo...
Mrazig of Tunisia Nuer Pokot Rendille Sahrawis Samburu Somalis Tuaregs Toubou Trekboers Turkana Nukak Navajo Some Komi Ahir Altai people Baloch Balti Banjara...
with these communities over the past 5000 or so years. Arbore people Daasanach people Western Omo–Tana languages "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census...
Abagusii may have been assimilated from the Luhya and Olusuba speaking Suba people, which originated from west of Lake Victoria. The majority of Abagusii are...
Kween and Kapchorwa in Uganda, Transnzoia county, Bungoma county and West Pokot county in Kenya The majority of Sabiny are Christians. According to the...
of Mount Kenya, thus the name Amiiru, meaning 'people of the forest'. [citation needed]The Ameru people comprise nine subgroups: the Igoji, Imenti, Tigania...
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