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Burundu is a rural village in Kakamega County of the former Western Province in Kenya.
Kakamega County is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kakamega. It has a population of 1,660,651 and an area of 3,033.8 km².
As of 2013 with the coming into effect of the new constitution, each county has its own government and therefore there is no central regional capital.Kakamega is the seat of government for Kakamega County, Bungoma County has its seat in Bungoma town, Busia County has the Assemble in Busia, Vihiga County in Vihiga town, all the County governments and governors are answerable to the people not to the national government.
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with 47 semiautonomous counties governed by elected governors. At 580,367 square kilometres (224,081 sq mi), Kenya is the world's 48th largest country by total area. With a population of more than 52.2 million people, Kenya is the 27th most populous country. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi while its oldest city and first capital is the coastal city of Mombasa. Kisumu City is the third largest city and a critical inland port at Lake Victoria. Other important urban centres include Nakuru and Eldoret.
It is part of the West Kabras ward of Malava Constituency and Kakamega County Council. [1]
Malava Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of twelve constituencies in Kakamega County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections.
The people of Burundu are the Kabras, a subgroup of the Luhya.
The Luhya are a Bantu ethnic group in Kenya. They number about 5.3 million people according to the 2009 census, being about 16% of Kenya's total population of 38.5 million, and are the second-largest ethnic group in Kenya.
The main economic activity is sugar cane farming as a cash crop. Maize and sweet potatoes are grown for subsistence use. Cattle, sheep, goats, chicken and ducks are all reared on small scale.
There is only one public primary school: Burundu Primary School. There is no secondary school, most children go to neighbouring villages' schools. The village is sparsely populated, with most people literate. Some of the prominent scholars from this village include Dr Shikuku Musima Mulambula, a senior lecturer at Moi University, Department of Educational Psychology, and Mr. Chemuku Wekesa, who works as a research scientist at Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Coast Eco-Region Research Programme. Mr. Chemuku Wekesa has a Master of Science degree in forest ecology from Egerton University and B.Sc. degree in forestry from Moi University.
Moi University is a public university located in Kesses, Uasin Gishu county, in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It was established in 1984 by the Moi University Act of the Parliament of Kenya, after recommendations from the McKay Commission.
The village has famous traditional medicine-men and traditionalists, including Mr. Murunga Joseph Mulambula, who is also a teacher. Some very old herbs species still exist on the banks of River Lusumu bordering Burundu to the South.
The former Kenyan footballer Jonathan Niva came from Burundu village. His funeral officially agitated the love of reggae music among the youth of this village.
The extra high voltage (132 kV ) transmission line from Owen Falls, Jinja, Uganda crosses Burundu village on its way to Nairobi via a sub-station at Kesses, near Eldoret. There is a power sub-station in neighbouring Musaga village, that connects the whole of Western Kenya to the national grid. The village is, however, not supplied with electricity.
Road network coverage is good, but trailers transporting sugar cane mess them when sugar cane is harvested. Mobile phone network coverage is provided by Zain, Yu and Safaricom that have base stations in Nambacha and Muhuni.
