06/12/2020
The Borana, Gabbra, and Sakuye peoples are sub-ethnic groups within the Oromo people group, and share language and culture. Some groups from the Oromo people from southern Ethiopia entered northern Kenya during the 16th century. They then differentiated into the cattle-keeping Borana, while the Gabbra and Sakuye specialized in camel-keeping. They lived together, each with different pastoral focus. As competition for lands and resources increased, conflicts emerged. The Borana speak Borana (or afaan Booranaa), a dialect of Oromo language, which is part of the Cush*tic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. In the border regions of Ethiopia-Kenya and southwestern Somalia, one estimated places about 220,000 people as Boranas.•
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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
