Flashcards: Ethnic groups in Kenya

The Bajuni people are a minority ethnic group mainly residing on the Bajuni Islands and surrounding coastal areas including the northern coast of Kenya.

Somalis (Somali: Soomaali, Arabic: صومال‎‎) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula).

The Swahili people (or Waswahili) are an ethnic and cultural group inhabiting the African Great Lakes region.

The Kalenjin are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting the Rift Valley Province in Kenya.

The Rendille (also known as Rendille, Reendile, Rendili, Randali, Randile, and Randille) are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the northern Eastern Province of Kenya.

The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya that are related to but distinct from the Maasai.

Pokomo are an ethnic group of Kenya, from the Bantu language group and is not one of the groups that make up the Mijikenda (which means "Nine Villages"); they are a distinct tribe with their own sub-clans/tribes.

The Giriama (also called Giryama) are one of the nine ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda (which literally translates to "nine towns").

Nilotic peoples are peoples indigenous to the Nile Valley that speak Nilotic languages, which comprise a large sub-group of the Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania.

The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana District in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and Samburu to the south, Uganda to the west, and South Sudan and Ethiopia to the north.

The Daasanach (also known as the Marille or Geleba) are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan.

The Taita people (the Wataita or Wadawida) are a Kenyan ethnic group located in the Taita-Taveta District.

The Kurya (also known as AbaKurya, as they prefer to call themselves) are a community of Bantu people who inhabit Kenya.

The Maasai (Kenyan English: [maˈsaːɪ]) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

The Kamba or Akamba people are a Bantu ethnic group - or tribe - who live in the semi-arid formerly Eastern Province of Kenya stretching east from Nairobi to Tsavo and north up to Embu, Kenya.

The Kikuyu are the largest ethnic group in Kenya.

The Luo (also called Joluo or Jonagi/Onagi, singular Jaluo, Jaonagi or Joramogi/Nyikwaramogi, meaning Ramogi's heirs) are an ethnic group in western Kenya, northern Uganda, and in Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

The Luhya (also known as Abaluyia or Luyia) are a Bantu ethnic group in Kenya.

The Meru, Amîîrú, "Ameru" or Ngaa people are a Bantu ethnic group that inhabit the Meru region of Kenya on the fertile lands of north and eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, in the former Eastern Province of Kenya.

The Pokot people (also spelled Pökoot) live in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in Uganda.

The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia (Oromia) and northern Kenya.

The British diaspora in Africa is a population group broadly defined as English-speaking white Africans of mainly (but not only) British descent who live in or come from Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Teso (or Iteso, people of Teso) are an ethnic group in eastern Uganda and western Kenya.

The Aweer (also known as the Waboni, Boni and Sanye) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Coast Province in southeastern Kenya.

The Okiek (Ogiek: [oɡiɛk]), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek (although the term Akiek sometimes refers to a distinct subgroup), are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Northern Tanzania, Southern Kenya (in the Mau Forest), and Western Kenya (in the Mount Elgon Forest).

Taveta is the name of a tribe of Southeast Africa, the name of the principal town in the land of the Taveta people, and also the name of the surrounding subdistrict of Kenya.

Ateker or ŋaTekerin is a common name for the closely related Jie, Karamojong, Turkana, Toposa, Nyangatom and Teso peoples and their languages.

Indians in Kenya are citizens and residents of Kenya with ancestral roots in the Indian subcontinent.

The Gabra (also written Gabbra or Gebra) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Chalbi Desert in northern Kenya and the highlands of southern Ethiopia.

The Kipsigis are a Nilotic ethnic group of Kenya.

The Mbeere or Ambeere people are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting the former Mbeere District in the now defunct Eastern Province of Kenya.

Somalis in Kenya are citizens and residents of Kenya who are of Somali descent.

Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, Wandorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania that are subservient to the Maasai and have no cattle.

The Yaaku (often Mukogodo-Maasai) are a people living in the Mukogodo forest west of Mount Kenya, a division of the Laikipia District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya.

Tugen may also refer to Tugen Hills in Kenya The Tugen are a sub tribe of the Kalenjin people alongside the Nandi, Kipsigis, Keiyo, Pokot, Marakwet, Sabaot, Ogiek, Lembus and Sengwer sub-tribes.

The El Molo, also known as Elmolo, Dehes, Fura-Pawa and Ldes, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the northern Eastern Province of Kenya.

There may have been minor settlement of Chinese people in Kenya as early as the 15th century; however, modern migration from the People's Republic of China to Kenya only dates to the late 1990s and early 2000s.