The Kalenjin are called Highland Nilotes because they live in the Highlands of the Rift Valley and are related to the people in the Nile area of Sudan and Uganda.

The Kalenjin are sometimes considered as a tribe made up of many clans.  The different clans are the Nandi Terik, Tugen, Keiyo, Marakwet, Pokot, Sabaot and the Kipsigis.  Marakwet is actually a blanket term for the Endo groups and the Talai.

The Okiek (also called Ndorobo), though originally of Cushitic... Read More

Man rapes, kills wife in Baringo

Police have intensified the search for a man who battered his wife to death after raping her on a footpath in broad daylight in Ngetmoi location of Baringo district.

According to Officer Commanding Police Division Peter Njenga the suspect Kipchumba Cherono followed his wife Mary Chebon to her parent's home where she had fled to seek shelter following repeated battering by the husband.

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