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Turkana Chief - Kenya |
Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:
Turkana live around the Turkana lake in the north of Kenya, and are the most beautiful tribe for me. The place is hard to reach, few tourists come there, and the people are really nice.
The Turkana live in the arid territories of northern Kenya, on the boundary with Sudan. Nilotic-speaking people, they have for a long time stayed outside of the influence of the main foreign trends. Nomad shepherds adapted to a almost totally desert area, some also fish in the Turkana lake.s
The Tharaka, meaning “starve”, belong to the Ameru ethnic group. They speak a Bantu-language, the Meru, and live on the eastern side of Mount Kenya. They are farmers. They have an important rite of passage called “Kirimo”, animal that swallows human beings and spits it out thereafter. They use arrows and have very efficient fighting techniques. So they still have kept their traditions, but are now also christians.
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