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 Borana man voting at a polling station in Marsabit, Kenya. |
| Total population |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Ethiopia, Kenya |
| Languages |
| Borana |
| Religion |
| Islam (16%), traditional religion[1] |
| Related ethnic groups |
| Oromo, Barentu |
- Borana is also an alternate Spanish name of the Boran sub-family of the larger Witotoan language family.
The Borana, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia (Oromia) and northern Kenya.[1] They are a sub-group of the Oromo people[2] and represent one of the two halves of the original Oromos (the other half being the Barentu). They are nomadic, but recently some Borana have taken up agriculture.
Oromos in northern Kenya first entered the region from southern Ethiopia during a major migratory expansion in the late 16th century. They then differentiated into the cattle-keeping Borana and the camel-keeping Gabra and Sakuye.[3]
The Borana speak Borana (or afaani Boraana), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Roughly 200,000 people identify as Boranas.[4]
Notes
- ^ a b Borana Oromo (Ethnologue)
- ^ Aguilar, Mario. "The Eagle as Messenger, Pilgrim and Voice: Divinatory Processes among the Waso Boorana of Kenya". Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 26, Fasc. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 56-72. Retrieved on 2007-10-27.
- ^ Elliot M. Fratkin, Eric Abella Roth, As Pastoralists Settle, (Springer: 2005), p.39
- ^ Appiah & Gates 1999, p. 288.
References
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., eds. (1999), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, New York: Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00071-1, OCLC 41649745.
Further reading
- Asmerom Legesse, Gada
- Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some records of Ethiopia Hakluyt Society, 1954
- Bassi Marco, Decisions in the Shade. Political and juridical processes among the Oromo-Borana Red Sea Press, 2005
- Clifford H F Plowman CMG OBE, Notes On The Gedamoch Ceremonies Among The Boran, (Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 18, No. 70 (Jan., 1919), pp. 114-121 )
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