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The first name of the Kipsigis males is prefixed by the term 'Kip' and then added a suffix descriptive of the prenatal, natal or post-natal places or time or weather and situations. It was to be widely used before initiation and rarely after, only as the mother mourns a dead soldier son or during divorce.
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 "the whites" or "the place where white people settle(d))", referring to ...
They are found alongside Lake Nyasa in Ludewa District in Iringa Region.Their main economic activity is fishing, however, other activities are like making pots and agriculture where they grow cassava.
Esther Okenyuri Anyieni [21] was born on February 18, 1991, in Kenyenya [22] village in Bomachoge Borabu, in Kisii County [23] to Henry Anyieni Oketch (1956–2006), a civil servant, and Lydia Nyachija Munema, a high school teacher. [citation needed]
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Around the 1950s, the name Kuria gained wide usage. Mijikenda, Abaluyia and Kalenjin also became generally accepted as ethnic names during the 1940s and 1950s, when they sought political recognition from Kenyan colonial authorities. The Kuria people may not have a common origin, although a number of clans claim to have come from Egypt. Kurian ...
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 ...