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The Nandi are part of the Kalenjin, a Nilotic tribe living in East Africa. The Nandi ethnic group live with close association and relation with the Kipsigis tribe. They traditionally have lived and still form the majority in the highland areas of the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya, in what is today Nandi County.
The Settlement of Nandi was the historical process by which the various communities that today make up the Nandi people of Kenya settled in Nandi County. It is captured in the folklore of the Nandi as a distinct process composed of a series of inward migrations by members from various Kalenjin ortinwek .
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His father died in one of the numerous wars with their Nandi neighbors when Magere was barely a teenager. He belonged to the Sidho clan in Kano, on the shores of Lake Victoria. The Sidho clan occupies the present-day sugar belt at the foot of the Nandi escarpment. He possessed unearthly powers, and his flesh was made of stone.
In 1909, A.C. Hollis and Charles Eliot published The Nandi: Their Language and Folklore, which contains a selection of folktales, proverbs, and riddles in Nandi with English translations. [6] Here are some of the proverbs: "Ii-e ngetuny lel." "The lion bears a hyena (said when a son is unworthy of his father)." (#2) "Inga-i ngom, i-ker-i-ke ...
Cheptalel [6] [7] (also Cheptaleel) is a heroine found in the folklore of the Kipsigis [8] and Nandi [9] sections of the Kalenjin people of Kenya. She became a folk hero as a result of being offered as a sacrifice (actually or symbolically) to save the Kalenjin sections from a drought that was ravaging their land.
Nandi Bushell (born 2010), South African-British drummer and musician Nandi Madida (born 1988), South African actress, musician and TV personality Nandi Rose Plunkett , Indian-American musician
As a film writer, he has written for films such as Kalikalam, [8] Surigadu, [9] Preminchu, [10] Mamaa Kodalu, Akka Bagunnava, etc. Received 2002 Golden Nandi Award of Andhra Pradesh Government for Preminchu movie. Suragadu Cinema has been selected for the China Film Festival and Indian Panorama. Surigadu was remade into a Hindi movie "Santaan ...