...Aneesa Kassam The “ethnic” origins of the Gabra camel pastoralists who live on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border and their relationship to the territorially adjacent Borana cattle pastoralists are matters of ongoing academic debate. This article, which is based on Gabra clan traditions, suggests that the...

... Desert, an extinct lake strewn with reddish volcanic ash and boulders. This is the land of the nomadic Somali, Gabra, Rendille, and Borana peoples. On the southern tip of the lake rise the slopes of Mount Kulal, the home of the elegant Samburu pastoralists. To the southeast the Elmolo fishermen live...

... Samburu, Marsabit, and Isiolo districts. Missionaries made remarkable efforts to learn the languages and cul- tures of the people, and they produced various books in the local lan- guages. Catholics joined Protestants in translating the Bible into Borana. The Bible Society of Kenya published it in...

... Ngdongiro of Ethiopia; the Ngtoposa of Sudan; the Ngjiye of Uganda; and the Nguupe and Ngkor of Kenya, some of these communities hosted large numbers of immigrants from Turkan after the British raids. The Sam- buru, Somali, Borana, Rendille, Ngkarimojong, and the Ngjiye welcomed the new immigrants or...

... feature is a geologically recent phenomenon: the elongate Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf). Just north of a large sand spit projecting into the lake at the north end of Allia Bay are some small conical hills known as Koobi Fora (Borana for ‘‘small hill of a satellite camp The Koobi Fora sand spit...