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The Nandi people have had remarkable political figures like Jean-Marie Seroney, the first MP for Nandi and Tindiret. Seroney was arrested and detained without trial for three and a half years for defending the independence of Parliament at a time when it was becoming an arm of the Executive.
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 .
Kimnyole (son of Torokat), killed by the Nandi in 1890. The Nandi area was formally incorporated into British East Africa in 1888 (though it submitted only in 1906.) Koitalel Arap Samoei (son of Kimnyole), killed and decapitate by British forces in 1905. [1] Kipeles or Tamasun (also son of Kimnyole), whose reign continued past 1909.
Of these, the Nandi resistance would stand out for being the longest and most tenacious. [1] The Nandi resistance was led by Koitalel Arap Samoei, the Orkoiyot of the Nandi at the time. On 19 October 1905, on the grounds of what is now Nandi Bears Club, Arap Samoei was asked to meet Col Richard Meinertzhagen for a truce.
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 ...
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S. Pedda Yerikal Reddy (4 June 1950 – 30 April 2019) was a three-time Lok Sabha MP and Industrialist who headed the Nandi Group of Industries. [2] He was born on 4 June 1950 in the Ankalammagudur village from Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh.
Nandi (mother of Shaka) (1760–1827), daughter of Bhebe of the Langeni tribe Onandi Lowe (born 1974), Jamaican footballer nicknamed Nandi Nandi Bushell (born 2010), South African-British drummer and musician