• Amaya is a female given name of Spanish, Japanese, Kisii name meaning goodness and Arabic origins, derived from the village of Amaya and its neighboring...
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    to the region. Bantu groups in Kenya include the Kikuyu, Luhya, Kamba, Kisii, Meru, Kuria, Aembu, Ambeere, Wadawida-Watuweta, Wapokomo, and Mijikenda...
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    Hombergh (24 December 1994). "Craniotomy;a much-alive tradition with the Kisii (Kenya)". Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 138 (52): 2621–5. PMID 7808537. Ostergaard...
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    are a staple food for groups that grow grains (e.g. Kikuyu, Embu, Meru, Kisii, etc.). Other communities such as the Luo and the Coastal community have...
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    been shaved depending upon the site of the operation. Trepanning at the Kisii people in Kenya was filmed in 1958. Trepanation was also practised in the...
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    local Sheng slang or even in vernacular language like kikuyu (G.rongi), Kisii (Smallz Lethal) or dholuo (Gidi Gidi Maji Maji). One of its many popular...
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    the Lake Victoria basin today include the Luhya, Suba, Kunta, Kuria and Kisii. Southern Nilotic speakers, the Nandi, Kipsigis and Maasai also were found...
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    music that heavily influenced emergence of benga. There were also popular folk songs of Tanzania and Kenya's Luo peoples that formed the base on benga creation...
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  • Namibia (Kalahari Desert) Animism Abagusii Niger–Congo → Bantu → Gusii Kenya (Kisii County) Christianity, Traditional African religion Abazins Northwest Caucasian...
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    abduction used to be, and to some extent still is, a customary practice for the Kisii ethnic group. In their practice, the abductor kidnaps the woman forcibly...
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