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The Taita people are an ethnic group in Kenya's Taita-Taveta County. [2] They speak Kidawida or Kitaita, which belongs to the Bantu language family. The West-Bantu migrated to the Taita-Taveta County around 1000-1300. [3] There is debate about whether the Taita people migrated to Kenya through Tanzania.
Wadawida, also known as the Taita, are a subgroup of the Taita people of South Eastern Kenya in East Africa. These Bantu-speaking people are in origin and language more related to the Taveta (Tuweta) people of Kenya, and the Pare who live at the Pare Mountains, Chagga who live on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and Sambaa people of Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.
Taveta is the name of a tribe found in Kenya. It is also the name of the principal town in the land of the Taveta people and the name of the surrounding subdistrict of Kenya. Notable Taveta people: Eng.John Mtuta Mruttu- The first Governor of Taita- Taveta County. Dr. Naomi Namsi Shabaan- She was Taveta Member of Parliament for 20 years.
The national population census carried out in 1969 put the number of persons in the Taita-Taveta district at 110,742. [10] The Kenya Population and Housing Census of August 2019 found that the number of people in Taita-Taveta County was 340,671 [5] representing an increase of 207.6% in fifty years. The growth of the human population means that ...
The people of Bura are predominantly of the Taita (Dawida) ethnic group, speaking the Dawida language as their mother tongue. The ancestors of the Bura Taita were said to have migrated from Lewa in Tanzania, in search of land for grazing and cultivation.
Taita is a Bantu language spoken in the Taita Hills of Kenya. It is closely related to the Chaga languages of Kenya and Tanzania . The Saghala (Northern Sagala, Sagalla) variety is distinct enough to be considered a language separate from the Daw'ida and Kasigau dialects.
The market is fueled in part by Taveta's rail connection through Voi with the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala line, built during the era of British Kenya. Large numbers of people walk across the border from Tanzania to buy and sell wares in Taveta; smuggled goods such as Tanzanian rubies and coffee are occasionally available there.
In 2011, the population of Taita-Taveta County was quoted at 284,657. [9] As of May 2015, the population of Mwatate town was estimated at 1.95 percent of the county population, [10] about 5,551 people.