- Samburu may also refer to Samburu National Reserve or Samburu District
The Samburu are an ethnic group in north central Kenya that are related to but distinct from the Maasai. The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels. The name they use for themselves is Lokop or Loikop, a term which may have a variety of meanings which Samburu themselves do not agree on. Many assert that it refers to them as "owners of the land" ("lo" refers to ownership, "nkop" is land) though others present a very different interpretation of the term. The Samburu speak the Samburu language. There is also a game park in the area, Samburu National Reserve. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 326 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Samburu people lighting up a fire, Kenya File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other...
Samburu is the Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language spoken by the Samburu in the highlands of northern Kenya. ...
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Languages Maa (ɔl Maa) Religions monotheist A Maasai tribesman. ...
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View over Lake Turkana Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya (although the far northern end of the lake crosses into Ethiopia), which covers a surface area of 6405 km² (2473 mi²), making it the worlds largest permanent desert...
Samburu National Reserve is located on the banks of Ewaso Nyiro river, across which is the Buffalo Springs National Reserve. ...
Samburu District is an area of roughly 8000 square miles (21,000 km²) in northern Kenya where the Samburu tribe live. ...
Languages Maa (ɔl Maa) Religions monotheist A Maasai tribesman. ...
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Pastoralists are people whose main source of livelihood is livestock with which they move seasonally in search of fresh pasture and water. ...
Samburu is the Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language spoken by the Samburu in the highlands of northern Kenya. ...
Samburu National Reserve is located on the banks of Ewaso Nyiro river, across which is the Buffalo Springs National Reserve. ...
Location They live north of the equator in Samburu District, an area roughly 8000 square miles (21,000 km²). Its landscape is one of great diversity and beauty. Before and a few years after independence the area north of the equator was called the Northern Frontier District (NDF). Samburu district was once a large part of the NDF. Only government officials were allowed to enter and it was closed to foreigners of both European and African descent. A special permit issued by the administration was required to enter the NDF. Even today Samburuland is still a remote area. World map showing the equator in red For other uses, see Equator (disambiguation). ...
Samburu District is an area of roughly 8000 square miles (21,000 km²) in northern Kenya where the Samburu tribe live. ...
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Ethnic Classification The Samburu are part of the Maa speaking people as are the Maasai. About 95% of the words of both languages are the same. The name 'Samburu' is also of Maasai origin and is derived from the word 'Samburr' which is a leather bag used by the Samburu to carry a variety of things. It is unclear when Samburu became a distinct ethnic identity. As is common many places around the world, ethnic identities became fixed and defined at the point of colonial contact. 19th century European travellers often referred to Samburu as "Burkineji" (people of the white goats), and there are many interconnections with other neighboring ethnic groups. Some Samburu are descended from remnants of the Laikipiak Maasai, a Maasai section which was destroyed in the late 19th century. Others are from Rendille, Turkana and Borana ethnicity. The Maa languages, are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually-intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers altogether. ...
The Rendille are an African ethnic group of the Kaisut Desert of Kenya. ...
Turkana refers to: Turkana people of Kenya Lake Turkana This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Borana are an East African ethnic group living in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. ...
Samburu practice polygynous marriage, and a man may have multiple wives. A Samburu settlement is known as a nkang or manyatta. It may consist of only one family, composed of a man and his wife/wives. Each woman has her own house, which she builds out of local materials, such as sticks, mud and cow dung. Large ritual settlements, known as lorora may consist of 20 or more families. However, settlements tend towards housing two or three families, with perhaps 5-6 houses built in a rough circle with an open space in the centre. The circle of huts is surrounded by thorn bush fence. The term polygyny (Greek: poly many, gynaika woman) is used in related ways in social anthropology and sociobiology. ...
One of the groups in the third Survivor was named "Samburu" in honor of the real Samburu, the other being "Boran," after Borana. Survivor: Africa was the third installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. ...
The Borana are an East African ethnic group living in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. ...
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References - Nigel Pavitt, "Samburu", ISBN 1-85626-429-7
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