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Empires, institutions and ordinary people. How the past quietly explains the present.

29 Sept 202629 min readOne People of the Mara: Were the Abagusii, Abakuria and Their Neighbours Ever Separate Tribes?Kipsigis tradition calls Bureti and Sotik an "upper Kisii". Kuria elders say they lived with the Gusii at Gutura. The sources point to one people split by later labels, and the place names along the rivers of the Mau may show the road they took.