Lembus is one of the tribes of

kalenjin people The Kalenjin are a group of tribes designated as Highland Nilotes and are descended from Maliri people ''(thus related to Daasanach of Ethiopia.)'' The Kalenjin are cousins with Datooga people of Tanzania and Malawi. In contrast, their desi ...

. Lembus tribe is sub-divided to Pokor,Keben,Bogor,Kakimor, Kamaruso,Somek,Murkaptuk,Agiekablembus,Chepkero,Kipkosom and Chepkosom. They settled in Emom Location, Chepkero location, ElKamaruso location, Elkakimor location, ElKeben Location, ElBogor location, Lembus Mosop location, Lembus, Soi Location, Lembus Kingasis Location, Lembus, Kiltuiya location and lembus East and west location. Other areas are Keiyo and Laikipia. Etc. The Lembus people are perceived to be closely related to the Tugen, but this assertion has been rejected by the Lembus themselves, and their Lembus Council of Elders based on migration history, cultural practice and language Members of the Lembus community insist that Tugen is just a name coined in the 1960s to unite the small communities living in Baringo.In 2019 the lembus people moved to court demanding to be recognized as a distinct ethnic group and not as s sub-tribe of the Tugen Lembus Council of Elders with Mzee Kenyatta when they visited him in his Gatundu home

Lembus Council of Elders with Mzee Kenyatta when they visited him in his Gatundu home

The Lembus and Nandi peoples

Lembus People have had close relationship with the

Nandi Nandi may refer to: People * Nandy (surname), Indian surname * Nandi (mother of Shaka) (1760–1827), daughter of Bhebe of the Langeni tribe * Onandi Lowe (born 1974), Jamaican footballer nicknamed Nandi * Nandi Bushell (born 2010), South Afri ...

dating back to precolonial period. It is also notable that Lembus People and the Nandi share a lot of cultural, language and religious similarities. In the 1890s, the Lembus People resisted the British entry into Lembus territories and especially the Lembus Forest. The resistance by the Lembus also coincided with the Nandi Resistance to the British in the late 1890s to 1906.Pavitt, N. ''Kenya: The First Explorers'', Aurum Press, 1989, p. 121 The British administrators in Eldama Ravine also accused the Lembus People of collusion with their Nandi brothers and cousins to fight the British.

The Lembus and Nandi peoples

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