Awori is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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The Catholic Church in Kenya is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Pope in the Vatican City.
The Luhya are a Bantu people and the second largest ethnic group in Kenya. The Luhya belong to the larger linguistic stock known as the Bantu. The Luhya are located in western Kenya and Uganda. They are divided into 20 culturally and linguistically united clans. Once known as the Kavirondo, multiple small tribes in North Nyanza came together under the new name Baluhya between 1950 and 1960. The Bukusu are the largest Luhya subtribe and account for almost 50% of the entire Luhya population, dominating other Luhya subtribes. They live in both Bungoma and Trans-Nzoia counties.
The Anglo Leasing scandal was a government procurement-facilitated corruption scandal in Kenya.
Moody Arthur Awori, known as "Uncle Moody", is a former Kenyan politician who served as the ninth Vice President of Kenya from 25 September 2003 to 9 January 2008. He is also the author of Riding on a Tiger, an autobiography about his life in politics.
Aggrey Siryoyi Awori was a Ugandan economist, politician and Olympic hurdler, who served as Minister for Information and Communications Technology in the Cabinet of Uganda from 16 February 2009 to 27 May 2011. Prior to that, he represented Samia-Bugwe North, Busia District in the Ugandan Parliament from 2001 until 2006. Awori was an outspoken opposition member of parliament for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) political party. In 2007, he abandoned the UPC and joined the ruling National Resistance Movement.
Christopher Ndarathi Murungaru is a former Kenyan politician, a former Member of Parliament for Kieni Constituency in Nyeri District and a former Minister of Transport.
Ruto, or Rutto, is a surname of Kenyan origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Matharu or Matharoo is an Indian surname. Matharus were fierce warriors especially during, the time when the Matharu tribe, had converted to Sikhism; they fought numbers of wars for Guru Gobind Singh, Banda Singh Bahadur and Jassa Singh.
Aggrey is both a surname and a given name. The term means powerful and complete. Notable people with the name include:
Sohal is a surname originating in the Punjab region of northern India and Pakistan.
Samia speaking people live in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda. They are composed of several clans and their ancient economic activities include fishing in Lake Victoria and other rivers such as River Sio, crop farming (obulimi), and animal farming (obutuki). The Samia speaking people, as widely known by other tribes, predominantly live in Busia districts and speak a dialect similar to the Luhya tribe in Kenya. However, on the Ugandan side there is a slight variation in the dialect spoken by the Samia of Southern Busia on the fringe of Lake Victoria and those of North Busia district closer to Tororo District. The former speak Olusamia while the latter speak Olugwe. The two dialects are difficult to differentiate by non Samia speaking people but easily discernible by the natives. and in Uganda mainly found inbusia and Namayingo district.
The surname O'Loughlin is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Lochlainn meaning "descendant of Lochlann". According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Loughlins were a chiefly family of the Corco Modhruadh tribe who in turn came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland from about 500 to 100 BC.
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Kenya.
Waweru is a Kenyan name given to baby boys of the Kikuyu tribe in the Mount Kenya region.
MAGSI is a caste that belongs to the Baloch tribe The MAGSI caste live in all the Pakistan MAGSI is a sub branch of Baloch tribe MAGSI caste has many sub branches (1) HEESBANI (2) BHOOTANI (3) LOLAI (4) HEBTHANI) etc.The MAGSI tribe mostly live in Sindh & Balochistan The Cheif Of MAGSI tribe is. The magsi tribe has a own city That is (jhalmagsi).and they are very powerful tribe in Sindhi Balochistan.
Okumu is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kariuki is a kikuyu male name. Notable people with the surname include:
Barasa is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People with the surname Lone include:
Thelma Awori is a Ugandan professor, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and feminist. She was born on March 25, 1943, in Monrovia, Liberia and came to Uganda in 1965. She is a former Uganda People's Congress diehard, who defected to the Movement. She is an individual African feminist who believes in justice for women and the validity of women’s perspectives. She sadly found an extremely high prevalence of internalized oppression due to religion and socialization.
