Uasin Gishu Historical Society

In 1909, Hollis when writing on the Nandi, collected a Kalenjin tale that when studied proves to be of ancient provenance. It is the story of the origin of circumcision. It is transcribed here as Hollis heard and transcribed it in 1909. This is crucial since this was one of the first external contacts in Nandi. This means the tale or rather the...

About The Sirikwa were an iron age culture that inhabited the Uasin Gishu plateau and whose territories spread across the former Rift Valley Province. They emerged as a distinct culture in the central Rift Valley from about the 10th century and possibly as early as the 7th century A.D. The culture was the result of an iron age evolution of the Pastoral Neolithic...