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The term is now popularly used in Kenya to refer to Abagusii people. [9] Among the Abagusii, the name Kisii does not refer to the people, but to a town—Kisii, also called Bosongo or Getembe [10] by the locals, is the major native urban centre of the Abagusii people. The name Bosongo is believed to have originated from Abasongo, which means ...
Location of Kisii Town in Kenya. Kisii (also known as Bosongo) is a municipality and urban centre in south-western Kenya and the capital city of Kisii County.Kisii Town also serves as a major urban and commercial centre in the Gusii Highlands—Kisii and Nyamira counties—and the South Nyanza region and is the second largest town in formerly greater Nyanza after Kisumu City.
Kisii people, an ethnic group in Kenya, also known as Abagusii or Gusii people; Gusii language, Bantu language spoken by the Kisii people; Kisii School for the Deaf, the only Deaf-run school for Deaf children in Kenya; Kisii stone, a name for soapstone, quarried in Tabaka area of southern Kisii District; Kisii University, Kenya
Kisii County is a county in the former Nyanza Province in southwestern Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kisii. The county has a population of 1,266,860 people according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census . [3] It borders Nyamira County to the North East, Narok County to the South, and Homa bay and Migori Counties to the West. [4]
1.2 Culture. 1.3 Location and economy. 1.4 Native names. ... Therefore in the past, most of the time the Kisi people were travelling on foot from Lupingu to Ludewa, ...
The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in Kisii and Nyamira counties in Nyanza Kenya, whose headquarters is Kisii Town, (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania). It is spoken natively by 2.2 million people (as of 2009), mostly among the Abagusii. Ekegusii has only two dialects ...
Returning later on as formidable warrior and establishing his army, he challenged the Maasai into a duel estimated from oral traditions to have taken place in the 1770s to where Kaplong town in Sotik is situated today, Menya led an army to war against the Maasai in order to resolve land disputes and territorial privileges. The war ensued for a ...
Its capital town was Kisii. The district was created during the colonial period from the South Kavirondo District. [1] The district is inhabited mostly by the Gusii people. Nyamira District was later carved out of Kisii in 1989. Further splitting led to the creation of Kisii Central District and Gucha District.