For both males and females, becoming an adult in Kalenjin society is a matter of undergoing an initiation ceremony. Traditionally, these were held about every seven years. Everyone undergoing initiation, or tumdo, thereby becomes a member of a named age-set, or ipinda.

After male youths were circumcised, they were secluded for lengthy periods during which they were instructed in the skills necessary for adulthood. Afterward, they would begin a phase of warriorhood during which they act... Read More

Baringo (Kabarnet) · Bomet (Bomet) · Buret (Litein) · Kajiado (Kajiado) · Keiyo (Iten / Tambach) · Kericho (Kericho) · Koibatek (Eldama Ravine) · Laikipia (Nanyuki) · Marakwet Kapsowar) · Nakuru (Nakuru) · Nandi (Kapsabet) · Narok (Narok) · Samburu (Maralal) · Trans Mara (Kilgoris) · Trans-Nzoia (Kitale) · Turkana (Lodwar) · Uasin Gishu (Eldoret) · West Pokot (Kapenguria).Nandi North (Ka... Read More

Kipsigis say that both they and the Nandi come from a place called "To," which some of them locate in the vicinity of Lake Baringo. In the course of their southward migration, sometime between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries, the Kipsigis and the Nandi separated. Today the Nandi are their immediate neighbors to the north. Pushing farther south, Kipsigis displaced the Luo, Kisii, and Maasai, the descendants of whom are currently their neighbors to the west and south. The Kipsigi... Read More

The Kalenjin languages or you can also call them Kalenjin tribes are a group of twelve related Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania. The term Kalenjin comes from a Nandi expression meaning 'I say (to you)'. Kalenjin in this broad linguistic sense should not be confused with Kalenjin as a term for the common identity the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya assumed halfway the twentieth century; see Kalenjin and Kalenjin language.