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181 relations: Acacia, African Great Lakes, Age set, Agnes Pareyio, Alur people, Amboseli National Park, Anthropologist, Arusha people, Austria, Autosome, Belief, Blood, Blue, Body painting, Bone, Bracelet, Brass, Buttermilk, Calfskin, Call and response (music), Capital punishment, Cattle, Cattle raiding, Ceremony, Charcoal, Christianity, Circumcision, Clay, Cockade, Color, Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, Copper, Cushitic languages, David Rudisha, Deciduous teeth, Dental arch, Dinka language, Divination, DNA, Dodoma, Dorobo peoples, Drone (music), Earlobe, East Africa, Edward Lowassa, Edward Sokoine, English language, Ethnogenesis, Europe, Exoskeleton, ..., Family tree, Feces, Female genital mutilation, Flower, Francis Ole Kaparo, Garrett Hardin, Gene flow, Genetic genealogy, Glass, Goat, Gourd, Great Rift Valley, Kenya, Greater kudu, Haplogroup B-M60, Haplogroup E-M215 (Y-DNA), Haplogroup E-V38, Haplogroup L0 (mtDNA), Haplogroup L2 (mtDNA), Haplogroup L3 (mtDNA), Haplogroup L4 (mtDNA), Haplogroup L5 (mtDNA), Haplogroup M (mtDNA), Head shaving, Healing, History, Horn (anatomy), House, Infant mortality, Iron, Islam, Ivory, James Ole Kiyiapi, Jewellery, Joseph Jordania, Joseph Ole Lenku, Joseph Ole Nkaissery, Kalenjin people, Kanga (African garment), Kenya, Kikoi, Kraal, Lake Manyara, Lake Turkana, Lifestyle (sociology), Linah Kilimo, Livestock, Maa Civil Society Forum, Maasai language, Maasai Mara, Maasai mythology, Maasai people, Macro-haplogroup L (mtDNA), Massai, Melville J. Herskovits, Mitochondrial DNA, Mombasa, Monotheism, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Marsabit, Mount Meru (Tanzania), Mud, Nairobi National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Nice Nailantei Lengete, Nilo-Saharan languages, Nilotic languages, Nilotic peoples, Nomad, North Africa, Ol Doinyo Lengai, Olekina Ledama, Opacity (optics), Oral history, Oral law, Oscar Baumann, Ox, Oxfam, Pace (unit), Pastoralism, Patriarchy, Patrilineality, Peace, Plastic, Polyandry, Polygyny, Prime Minister of Tanzania, Prophecy, Red, Red Maasai sheep, Rinderpest, Rite of passage, Samburu National Reserve, Samburu people, Sandal, Saponin, Sarong, Scavenger, Seed, Serengeti National Park, Shamanism, Sheep, Smallpox, South Sudan, Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, Swahili language, Tanga Region, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tartan, Technology, Textile, Tire, Tsavo, Turkana people, Ugali, Urine, Vachellia nilotica, Wameru, Warrior, Water, Wattle (construction), Weston Price, White, Wildlife, William Ole Ntimama, Woman, Wood, Y chromosome, Zebu, 1890s African rinderpest epizootic, 19th century. Expand index (131 more) »
Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as the wattles or acacias, is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
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African Great Lakes
The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
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Age set
In anthropology, an age set is a social category or corporate social group, consisting of people of similar age, who have a common identity, maintain close ties over a prolonged period, and together pass through a series of age-related statuses.
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Agnes Pareyio
Agnes Pareyio (born June 24, 1956) is a Maasai Kenya women's rights activist, politician and founder and director of the Tasaru Ntomonok Rescue Center for Girls, an organization that campaigns against female genital cutting.
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Alur people
Alur are an ethnic group who live in northwestern Uganda and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is in Kajiado County, Kenya.
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Anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.
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Arusha people
The Arusha (Waarusha) people are an ethnic, indigenous and linguistic group based in Arusha Region in northern Tanzania.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Autosome
An autosome is a chromosome that is not an allosome (a sex chromosome).
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Belief
Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.
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Blood
Blood is a body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
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Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model.
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Body painting
Body painting, or sometimes bodypainting, is a form of body art.
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Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton.
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Bracelet
A bracelet is an article of jewellery that is worn around the wrist.
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Brass
Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.
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Buttermilk
Buttermilk refers to a number of dairy drinks.
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Calfskin
Calfskin or calf leather is a leather or membrane produced from the hide of a calf, or juvenile domestic cattle.
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Call and response (music)
In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Cattle raiding
Cattle raiding is the act of stealing cattle.
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Ceremony
A ceremony is an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Circumcision
Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis.
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Clay
Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.
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Cockade
A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colors which is usually worn on a hat.
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Color
Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.
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Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP - also known as lung plague), is a contagious bacterial disease that afflicts the lungs of cattle, buffalo, zebu, and yaks.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Cushitic languages
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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David Rudisha
David Lekuta Rudisha, MBS (born 17 December 1988) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner.
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Deciduous teeth
Deciduous teeth, commonly known as baby teeth and temporary teeth,Illustrated Dental Embryology, Histology, and Anatomy, Bath-Balogh and Fehrenbach, Elsevier, 2011, page 255 are the first set of teeth in the growth development of humans and other diphyodont mammals.
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Dental arch
The dental arches are the two arches (crescent arrangements) of teeth, one on each jaw, that together constitute the dentition.
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Dinka language
Dinka (natively Thuɔŋjäŋ, Thuɔŋ ee Jieng or simply Jieng) is a Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan.
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Divination
Divination (from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god", related to divinus, divine) is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.
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Dodoma
Dodoma (literally "It has sunk" in Gogo), officially Dodoma City, is the national capital of The United Republic Of Tanzania and the capital of Dodoma Region, with a population of 410,956.
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Dorobo peoples
Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, Wandorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania.
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Drone (music)
In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece.
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Earlobe
The human earlobe (lobulus auriculae) is composed of tough areolar and adipose connective tissues, lacking the firmness and elasticity of the rest of the auricle (the external structure of the ear).
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East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.
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Edward Lowassa
Edward Ngoyai Lowassa (born August 26, 1953) is a Tanzanian politician who was Prime Minister of Tanzania from 2005 to 2008, serving under President Jakaya Kikwete.
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Edward Sokoine
Edward Moringe Sokoine (1 August 1938 – 12 April 1984) was a two-term Prime Minister of Tanzania serving from 13 February 1977 to 7 November 1980 and again from 24 February 1983 to 12 April 1984.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Ethnogenesis
Ethnogenesis (from Greek ethnos ἔθνος, "group of people, nation", and genesis γένεσις, "beginning, coming into being"; plural ethnogeneses) is "the formation and development of an ethnic group." This can originate through a process of self-identification as well as come about as the result of outside identification.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω, éxō "outer" and σκελετός, skeletós "skeleton") is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example, a human.
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Family tree
A family tree, or pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure.
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Feces
Feces (or faeces) are the solid or semisolid remains of the food that could not be digested in the small intestine.
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Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia.
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Flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).
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Francis Ole Kaparo
Francis Xavier Ole Kaparo (born 1 September 1950) EGH is the Commission Chairman, the NCIC since August 2014.
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Garrett Hardin
Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist and philosopher who warned of the dangers of overpopulation.
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Gene flow
In population genetics, gene flow (also known as gene migration or allele flow) is the transfer of genetic variation from one population to another.
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Genetic genealogy
Genetic genealogy is the use of DNA testing in combination with traditional genealogical methods to infer relationships between individuals and find ancestors.
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Glass
Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.
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Goat
The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Gourd
A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria or the fruit of the two genera of Bignoniaceae "calabash tree", Crescentia and Amphitecna.
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Great Rift Valley, Kenya
The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south.
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Greater kudu
The greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a woodland antelope found throughout eastern and southern Africa.
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Haplogroup B-M60
Haplogroup B (B-M60) is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup common to paternal lineages in Africa.
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Haplogroup E-M215 (Y-DNA)
E-M215, also known as E1b1b and formerly E3b, is a major human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.
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Haplogroup E-V38
Haplogroup E-V38 is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.
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Haplogroup L0 (mtDNA)
Haplogroup L0 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
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Haplogroup L2 (mtDNA)
Haplogroup L2 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup with a widespread modern distribution, particularly in Subequatorial Africa.
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Haplogroup L3 (mtDNA)
Haplogroup L3 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
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Haplogroup L4 (mtDNA)
Haplogroup L4 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
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Haplogroup L5 (mtDNA)
Haplogroup L5 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) clade.
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Haplogroup M (mtDNA)
Haplogroup M is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
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Head shaving
Head shaving is the practice of shaving the hair from a person's head.
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Healing
Healing (literally meaning to make whole) is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals consisting of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
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House
A house is a building that functions as a home.
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Infant mortality
Infant mortality refers to deaths of young children, typically those less than one year of age.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.
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James Ole Kiyiapi
James Ole Kiyiapi was a 2013 Kenyan Presidential candidate for the Restore and Build Kenya Party.
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Jewellery
Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English)see American and British spelling differences consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.
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Joseph Jordania
Joseph Jordania (born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor.
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Joseph Ole Lenku
Joseph Jama Ole Lenku (born 20 October 1970) is a Kenyan politician who is serving as the second Governor of Kajiado county after emerging triumphant in the Kenyan General Elections held on 8th of August 2017.
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Joseph Ole Nkaissery
Major-General Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery (28 November 1949 – 8 July 2017) was a Kenyan politician.
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Kalenjin people
The Kalenjin are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting much of what was the Rift Valley Province in Kenya.
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Kanga (African garment)
The kanga, is a colourful fabric similar to kitenge, but lighter, worn by women and occasionally by men throughout the African Great Lakes region.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.
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Kikoi
A kikoi is a traditional rectangle of woven cloth originating from Africa, particularly along the east coast as far south as the Horn of Africa.
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Kraal
Kraal (also spelled craal or kraul) is an Afrikaans and Dutch word (also used in South African English) for an enclosure for cattle or other livestock, located within an African settlement or village surrounded by a fence of thorn-bush branches, a palisade, mud wall, or other fencing, roughly circular in form.
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Lake Manyara
Lake Manyara is a shallow lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the East African Rift in Manyara Region in Tanzania.
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Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia.
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Lifestyle (sociology)
Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.
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Linah Kilimo
Linah Jebii Kilimo (born October 22, 1963) was an MP for Marakwet East constituency from 2002 to 2012.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Maa Civil Society Forum
The Maa Civil Society Forum is an association of various NGOs, organisations and individuals formed to promote land rights claims of the Maasai people of Kenya.
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Maasai language
Maasai (Masai) or Maa (autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 800,000.
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Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara National Reserve (also known as Maasai Mara, Masai Mara and by the locals as The Mara) is a large game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Mara Region, Tanzania.
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Maasai mythology
The Maasai mythology involves several beliefs of the Maasai people, an ethnic group living in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Maasai people
Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.
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Macro-haplogroup L (mtDNA)
In human mitochondrial genetics, L is the mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup that is at the root of the human mtDNA phylogenetic tree.
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Massai
Massai (also known as: Massa, Massi, Masai, Wasse or Massey; c.1847-1906, 1911Simmons, Marc. - "TRAIL DUST: Massai's escape part of Apache history". - The Santa Fe New Mexican. - November, 14 2008. - Retrieved: January 25, 2010.) was a member of the Mimbres /Mimbreños local group of the Chihenne band of the Chiricahua Apache.
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Melville J. Herskovits
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Mombasa
Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.
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Monotheism
Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro or just Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira", is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.
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Mount Marsabit
Marsabit is a 6300 km² basaltic shield volcano in Kenya, located 170 km east of the center of the East African Rift, in Marsabit County near the town of Marsabit.
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Mount Meru (Tanzania)
Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located west of Mount Kilimanjaro in the country of Tanzania.
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Mud
Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and any combination of different kinds of soil (loam, silt, and clay).
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Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park is a national park in Kenya.
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is a protected area and a World Heritage Site located west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania.
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Nice Nailantei Lengete
Nice Nailantei Leng'ete is an advocate of alternative rite of passage (ARP) for girls in Kenya’s pastoralist communities, campaigning to stop female genital mutilation.
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Nilo-Saharan languages
The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.
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Nilotic languages
The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples, who traditionally practice cattle-herding.
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Nilotic peoples
The Nilotic peoples are peoples indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages, which constitute a large sub-group of the Nilo-Saharan languages spoken in South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and northern Tanzania.
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Nomad
A nomad (νομάς, nomas, plural tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another in search of grasslands for their animals.
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North Africa
North Africa is a collective term for a group of Mediterranean countries and territories situated in the northern-most region of the African continent.
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Ol Doinyo Lengai
Ol Doinyo Lengai, "Mountain of God" in the Maasai language, is an active volcano located in the Gregory Rift, south of Lake Natron within the Arusha Region of Tanzania, Africa.
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Olekina Ledama
Ledama Olekina is the Senator for Narok County.
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Opacity (optics)
Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light.
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Oral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.
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Oral law
An oral law is a code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or community application, by which a body of rules of human behaviour is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected, or the single rule that is orally transmitted.
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Oscar Baumann
Oscar Baumann (25 June 1864 in Vienna – 12 October 1899 in Vienna) was an Austrian explorer, cartographer and ethnographer.
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Ox
An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal.
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Oxfam
Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.
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Pace (unit)
A pace is a unit of length consisting either of one normal walking step (~0.75 m), or of a double step, returning to the same foot (~1.5 m).
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Pastoralism
Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock.
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Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
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Patrilineality
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through his or her father's lineage.
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Peace
Peace is the concept of harmony and the absence of hostility.
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Plastic
Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.
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Polyandry
Polyandry (from πολυ- poly-, "many" and ἀνήρ anēr, "man") is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time.
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Polygyny
Polygyny (from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία from πολύ- poly- "many", and γυνή gyne "woman" or "wife") is the most common and accepted form of polygamy, entailing the marriage of a man with several women.
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Prime Minister of Tanzania
The Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania is the leader of government business in the National Assembly.
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Prophecy
A prophecy is a message that is claimed by a prophet to have been communicated to them by a god.
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Red
Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.
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Red Maasai sheep
The Red Maasai is a breed of sheep indigenous to East Africa.
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Rinderpest
Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and many other species of even-toed ungulates, including buffaloes, large antelope and deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthogs.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Samburu National Reserve
The Samburu National Reserve is a game reserve on the banks of the Ewaso Ng'iro river in Kenya.
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Samburu people
Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya.
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Sandal
Sandals are an open type of footwear, consisting of a sole held to the wearer's foot by straps going over the instep and, sometimes, around the ankle.
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Saponin
Saponins are a class of chemical compounds found in particular abundance in various plant species.
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Sarong
A sarong or sarung (Malay:, formal Indonesian:, colloquial Indonesian:, Tamil: சரம், Arabic: صارون, Sinhalese: සරම; meaning "sheath" in Indonesian and Malay) is a large tube or length of fabric, often wrapped around the waist, worn in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, and on many Pacific islands.
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Scavenger
Scavenging is both a carnivorous and a herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead animal and plant material present in its habitat.
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti National Park is a Tanzanian national park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions.
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Shamanism
Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.
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South Sudan
South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.
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Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya
The Speaker is the presiding officer of the Kenyan National Assembly.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.
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Tanga Region
Tanga Region is one of the 31 administrative regions of Tanzania.
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Tanganyika
Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
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Tartan
Tartan (breacan) is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours.
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Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".
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Textile
A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).
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Tire
A tire (American English) or tyre (British English; see spelling differences) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface traveled over.
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Tsavo
Tsavo is a region of Kenya located at the crossing of the Uganda Railway over the Tsavo River, close to where it meets the Athi River.
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Turkana people
The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana District in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and Samburu people to the south, Uganda to the west, and South Sudan and Ethiopia to the north.
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Ugali
Ugali (also sometimes called kimnyet, sima, sembe, obokima, kaunga, dona, obusuma, ngima, kwon, arega or posho) is a dish made of maize flour (cornmeal), millet flour, or sorghum flour (sometimes mixed with cassava flour) cooked in boiling liquid (water or milk) to a stiff or firm dough-like consistency (when it is cooked as porridge, it is called uji) and served with salad.
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Urine
Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many animals.
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Vachellia nilotica
Vachellia nilotica (commonly known as gum arabic tree, babul, thorn mimosa, Egyptian acacia or thorny acacia) is a tree in the family Fabaceae.
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Wameru
The Meru (waMeru), also known as the Rwa, are a Meru-speaking Tanzanian ethnic and linguistic group native to the slopes of Mount Meru in Arusha Region.
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Warrior
A warrior is a person specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior class or caste.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Wattle (construction)
Wattle is a lightweight construction material made by weaving thin branches (either whole, or more usually split) or slats between upright stakes to form a woven lattice.
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Weston Price
Weston Andrew Valleau Price (September 6, 1870 – January 23, 1948) was a dentist known primarily for his theories on the relationship between nutrition, dental health, and physical health.
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White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light.
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Wildlife
Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.
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William Ole Ntimama
William Ronkorua Ole Ntimama (February 1928 – September 1, 2016) was a Kenyan politician.He was a staunch supporter of the ruling party KANU, prior to the adoption of the multiparty politics in Kenya in 1990.
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Woman
A woman is an adult female human being.
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Wood
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
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Y chromosome
The Y chromosome is one of two sex chromosomes (allosomes) in mammals, including humans, and many other animals.
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Zebu
A zebu (Bos primigenius indicus or Bos indicus or Bos taurus indicus), sometimes known as indicine cattle or humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in the Indian Subcontinent.
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1890s African rinderpest epizootic
In the 1890s, an epizootic of the rinderpest virus struck Africa, considered to be "the most devastating epidemic to hit southern Africa in the late nineteenth century".
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19th century
The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.
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References
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