The Turkana 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 Samburu people to the south, Uganda to the west, to the South Sudan ( Didinga and Toposa ) and Ethiopia to the north.
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The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot...
Turkana County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is Kenya's second largest county by land area of 98,597.8km2 followed by Marsabit...
Turkana may refer to: Turkanapeople of Kenya and Ethiopia Turkana language of Kenya and Ethiopia Lake Turkana in Kenya Lake Turkana National Parks Turkana...
Lake Turkana (/tɜːrˈkɑːnə, -ˈkæn-/) is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It...
people live in a pastoral system, moving around wherever resources can be found. In years of scarcity conflicts happen almost every day. Lake Turkana...
Turkana /tɜːrˈkɑːnə/ is the language of the Turkanapeople of Kenya and Ethiopia. It is spoken in northwestern Kenya, primarily in Turkana County, which...
Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth who lived 1.5...
The greater Turkana Basin in East Africa (mainly northwestern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, smaller parts of eastern Uganda and southeastern South Sudan)...
Alexander Bulatovich, detailing hostile exchange of words between the Turkanapeople and Welde Giyorgis Aboye's forces, where Bulatovich was attached to...
raid against the Turkana. Several hundred Turkanapeople were killed in a raid in July 1939 by the Nyangatom and Dassanech peoples. Italy gave up their...
The Turkana District was an administrative district in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Turkana was the northwesternmost district in Kenya. It is bordered...
common name for the closely related Jie, Karamojong, Turkana, Toposa, Nyangatom and Teso peoples and their languages. These ethnic groups inhabit an area...
Plain Nilotes speak Maa languages and include the Maasai, Samburu, and Turkanapeoples The River Lake Nilotes include the Joluo (Kenyan Luo), who are part...
tongue. It is home to Rendille and Elmollo People but now has other Kenyan communities like Turkanapeople, Luo, Meru, and Somali. It was founded near...
Kakuma is a town in northwestern Turkana County, Kenya. It is the site of a UNHCR refugee camp, established in 1992. The population of Kakuma town was...
The Lokiriama Peace Accord is a peace treaty between the Turkanapeople of Kenya and the Matheniko of Uganda signed in December 1973 as a commitment by...
South Sudan. Most Nilotic speakers in the area, including the Maasai, the Turkana and the Kalenjin, are pastoralists and have a reputation as fearsome warriors...
are members of the Ateker or Karamojong cluster that also contains the Turkana, Toposa, Karamojong, and Jie who speak closely related languages. They...
Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP) is a wind farm in Kenya. It is located in Loiyangalani District, in Marsabit County, approximately 545 kilometres...
produced films covering a wide range of subjects, be it the semi-nomadic Turkanapeople of Kenya in The Wedding Camels or an elite North Indian boys' boarding...
Nasanyana is a fashion model born in the town of Lodwar, situated in the Turkana District of Kenya. Her first foray into modeling was in the Miss Tourism...
phrase "the old men can walk no farther". Related to Turkana: in the Karamojong language, the people and the language have the convenient prefixes ŋi- and...
popularity in recent years as gospel music became more popular. The Turkanapeople of the north, the Bajuni, Akamba, Borana, Chuka, Gusii, Kikuyu, Luhya...
2013. From 1998 to 2013 he served as a Member of Parliament representing Turkana Central. He also served as the Assistant Minister for Planning and National...
early warning system developed to monitor the region inhabited by the Turkanapeople in northern Kenya also has three levels, but links each stage to a pre-planned...
Nationalities, and People's Region, adjacent to Lake Turkana. According to the 2007 national census, they number 48,067 people (or 0.07% of the total...
was a Maa term meaning 'the people of the white goats'. Von Höhnel (1894) writing following his journey to Lake Turkana, noted that the Burkineji originally...
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