...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...

..., Aneesa 2006 The People of the Five “Drums”: Gabra Ethnohistorical Origins. Ethnohistory 53 ( 1 ): 174 –93. Lindgren, Björn 2004 The Internal Dynamics of Ethnicity: Clan Names, Origins and Castes in Southern Zimbabwe. Africa 74 ( 2 ): 173 –93. Luling, Virginia 2002 Somali Sultanate...

... and pours its silt-laden waters into Lake Rudolf by the border with Kenya. To the east rises the waterless Chalbi 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...

... dille and Gabra area at Laisamis and Kargi.2 The Bishop was a tough negotiator to deal with, but we managed to achieve an agreement that was advantageous to both sides—at least I thought so. Some of my superiors had doubts and reservations on the grounds that schools and churches...

..., the Ren- Figure 4. Komote and Layene island villages on southeastern shores. 206 Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler dille, the Gabra, the Samburu, and the Turkana (Sobania1988). The Elmolo in fact share most of the cultural practices of these pastoralist communities...