Kwavi is the dialect of Maasai spoken by the Kwavi people (a.k.a. Parakuyo or Baraguyu) of Tanzania. According to Hurskainen (1994), "The Parakuyo (earlier also called Ilparakuyo, Baraguyu, Kwavi, Lumbwa, and Iloikop) are a Maa-speaking ethnic...
The Kwavi people were a community commonly spoken of in the folklore of a number of Kenyan and Tanzanian communities that inhabited regions of south-central Kenya and north-central Tanzania at various points in history. The conflicts between the...
Maasai (previously spelled Masai) or Maa (English: MAH-sye; autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million. It is closely related to the other Maa...
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups of Africa. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or...
The Bukusu people (Bukusu: Babukusu) are one of the 17 Kenyan tribes of the Luhya Bantu people of East Africa residing mainly in the counties of Bungoma and Trans Nzoia. They are the largest tribe of the Luhya nation, with 1,188,963 identifying as...
The Kipsigis (Kipsigiis or Kipsikiis) are the largest tribe of the Kalenjin ethnic group and speak Kipsigis, a dialect of the Kalenjin language which is classified as a Southern Nilotic. Their dialect is identified by their community eponym...
The Shambaa Kingdom or Usambara Kingdom also historically referred to as The Kingdom of Usambara ( Umweri ye Shambaai in Shambaa; Ufalme wa Usambara, in Swahili) was a pre-colonial Bantu sovereign kingdom of the Shambaa people on the Usambara...
