44 Tribes of Kenya

Mijikenda Tribes

The Mijikenda are a coastal tribal group made up of nine subtribes The Mijikenda are known for the preservation of their traditi...

Isaak

Main traders when the Europeans reached the East African port. They acted as guides and translators for the British people They...

Kenyan European Tribe

Economically, virtually all Europeans in Kenya belong to the middle- and upper-middle-class A small minority Europeans in Kenya...

Borana

The Borana traditional dress is made from goat and sheepskins. Three sheep were needed to make a complete garment for a woman. F...

Mijikenda Tribes

The Mijikenda are a coastal tribal group made up of nine subtribes
The Mijikenda are known for the preservation of their traditional religion.Each of the Mijikenda groups has a sacred forest, a kaya, which is a place of prayer. Eleven of the approximately 30 kaya forests have been inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
Mijikenda people are also known for creating wooden kigango funerary statues which have been displayed in museums around the world and sold in the international art market.The ‘vigango’ and koma are erected after someone's death, to honour them.
The preservation of their culture and beliefs is attributed to how they have incorporated the myth of their origins, as well as a description of their kaya-based, stratified social structure, into a written record of their culture, which is passed on to their children.
Mijikenda dancers perform their exhilarating dances in various events today, attracting both domestic and international tourists in festivals celebrating the coastal cultures

Main traders when the Europeans reached the East African port. They acted as guides and translators for the British people
They are considered to be Urban Somalis from British Somaliland

Economically, virtually all Europeans in Kenya belong to the middle- and upper-middle-class
A small minority Europeans in Kenya are landowners (livestock, horticulturists and farmers), whereas the majority work in the tertiary sector: in finance, import, air transport, and hospitality.

The Borana traditional dress is made from goat and sheepskins. Three sheep were needed to make a complete garment for a woman.
For the majority of the members of the tribe, the staple diet is milk and meat and sometimes blood as other foods are considered Taboo
Islam has become influential in Borana society in the last 20 years.