The Lumbwa (also Lumbua, Umpua, Humba and Wakwavi) were a pastoral community which inhabited southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The term Lumbwa has...
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Lumbwa is a settlement in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. Railway stations in Kenya Lumbwa people v t e...
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The Lumbwa Treaty event took place on 13 October 1889, in Lumbwa (Kipkelion town today,) in Kericho between the Kipsigis led by Menya Araap Kisiara and...
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(1994), "The Parakuyo (earlier also called Ilparakuyo, Baraguyu, Kwavi, Lumbwa, and Iloikop) are a Maa-speaking ethnic group scattered over a large area...
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Gelai Lumbwa is an administrative ward in the Longido District of the Arusha Region of Tanzania. According to the 2012 census, the ward has a total population...
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Kipsigis people (section Lumbwa Treaty)
and the British colonial government referred to the Kipsigis people as Lumbwa and Kwavi. The pre-colonial traditional occupations of the Kipsigis included...
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Second Mutai (section Acculturation of the Lumbwa)
Mutai (Maa; meaning Disaster) is a term used by the Maa-speaking communities of Kenya to describe a period of wars, usually triggered by disease and/or...
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Settlement of Nandi (section Elgon & Lumbwa origins)
from Lumbwa. From the Kalenjin narrative of origin, a distinct Chemwal (predating Nandi) identity appears to have formed when the Nandi and Lumbwa sections...
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of the Lumbwa. Meru oral history describes the arrival of their ancestors at Mount Kenya where they interacted with this community. The Lumbwa occupied...
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Ngaa people (section Lumbwa)
Meru traditions recorded in Mwimbi and Muthambi recount that the pastoral Lumbwa lived in association with a hunting community remembered as Agumba (or Gumba)...
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