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Samburu
Total population
333,471[1]
Regions with significant populations
Samburu county (Kenya)
Languages
Samburu
Religion
Traditional beliefs
Related ethnic groups
Other Nilotic peoples
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The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels. The name they use for themselves is Lokop or Loikop, a term which may have a variety of meanings which Samburu themselves do not agree on. Many assert that it refers to them as "owners of the land" ("lo" refers to ownership, "nkop" is land) though others present a very different interpretation of the term. Samburu speak the Samburu dialect of the Maa language, which is a Nilotic language. The Maa language is also spoken by other 22 sub tribes of the Maa community otherwise known as the Maasai. Many Western anthropologists[who?] tried to carve out and create the Samburu tribe as a community of its own, unaffiliated to its parent Maasai community, a narrative that seems[neutrality is disputed] that many Samburu people today hold.[citation needed] There are many game parks in the area, one of the most well known is Samburu National Reserve. The Samburu sub tribe is the third largest in the Maa community of Kenya and Tanzania, after the Kisonko (Isikirari) of Tanzania and Purko of Kenya and Tanzania.
^"2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume IV: Distribution of Population by Socio-Economic Characteristics". Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels...
Samburu East, Samburu West, and Samburu North. The headquarters of Samburu Central is Maralal, Samburu North is Baragoi and headquarters for Samburu East...
Conservation Unit. Samburu Airport Samburu County Samburu language Samburupeople http://www.kenya.me.uk Facts about the Samburu National Reserve Jackman...
Nilotic and Cushitic descent, speak the Eastern Nilotic Samburu language of the Samburupeople with whom they cohabit. Recent advances in genetic analyses...
Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and Samburu people...
Samburu may refer to the following entities in Kenya: SamburupeopleSamburu language Samburu National Reserve Samburu County Samburu, Kwale County, a...
Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburupeople of central...
Archers Post is a settlement in Kenya's Samburu County, which is home to the Samburupeople. Nearby villages include Lerata. The land belongs to the Kenyan...
national parks: Amboseli National Park, Nairobi National Park, Maasai Mara, Samburu National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park and Tsavo in Kenya; and Lake...
in 1964 as a forest reserve status. In 1995, a Trust was formed by the Samburu tribes to preserve the Namunyak Wildlife Conservacy, which remains one...
Isiolo County, Kenya. The reserve was established in 1948 as part of the Samburu - Isiolo Game Reserve and the present boundaries were established in 1985...
and includes the Sasaab lodge in Samburu County which pays a rent of $58 per guest per night to the local Samburupeople who owns the land. The manor and...
For example, various tribes in East Africa, such as the Maasai and Samburupeople of Kenya, used to perform a lion dance to celebrate a successful lion...
are northern Kenyan pastoralists. They claim descent from cattle-owning Samburu who captured significant herds of camels and learned how to manage them...
Maa-speaking people living south and southeast of Lake Baringo, Kenya. They numbered approximately 32,949 people in 2019 and are closely related to the Samburu living...
Northern Maa Samburu (spoken by the Samburupeople) Camus (or il-Chamus, the preferred autonym; sometimes considered a dialect of Samburu) Southern Maa...
between Marsabit and Shaba, Kenya. It is in an area populated by the Samburupeople. Lerata is located along the A2 road, not far north of Archers Post...
the fictional Winabi tribe in Kenya (which were loosely based on the Samburupeople) which is sought out by Bacon's character to play in the US. Most of...
trailer filled with flies. Flies everywhere. But I loved the people, the Samburupeople, and I made very good friends with a woman of the tribe. We didn’t...
couple moved in together, married, and had a daughter. The Samburu are a pastoralist people related to the Maasai, and live in small villages in an arid...
east and south of Lake Turkana. The area is roughly conterminous with Samburu and Laikipia Counties and portions of Baringo, Turkana and (possibly) Meru...
The Plain Nilotes speak Maa languages and include the Maasai, Samburu, and Turkana peoples The River Lake Nilotes include the Joluo (Kenyan Luo), who are...
Afro-Asiatic language of the Cushitic branch, and now most El Molo speak Samburu. The El Molo are believed to have originally migrated down into the Turkana...
to the language of the Pokot and Samburupeoples, representing a tradition in the area of inhabitation by these peoples prior to displacement by the Turkana...
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