Borana people

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Borana
Borana women

Total population

Regions with significant populations
Ethiopia, Kenya
Languages
Borana
Religion
Predominantly Animist^[1]
Related ethnic groups
Oromo, Barentu

Borana is also an alternate Spanish name of the Boran sub-family of the larger Witotoan language family.

The Borana, also called the Boran, are an animist East African ethnic group living in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia (Oromia). They are a sub-group of the Oromo people^[2] and represent one of the two halves of the original Oromos (the other half being the Barentu). They are nomadic, but recently some Borana have taken up agriculture.

They speak Borana, or afaani Boraana, a Cushitic language. Roughly 200,000 people identify as Boranas.^[3]

Notes

^ Asmerom Legesse, "Gada"
^ Aguilar, Mario. "The Eagle as Messenger, Pilgrim and Voice: Divinatory Processes among the Waso Boorana of Kenya". Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 26, Fasc. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 56-72. Retrieved on 2007-10-27.
^ Appiah & Gates 1999, p. 288.

References

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Appiah, Kwame Anthony & Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., eds. (1999), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, New York: Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00071-1, OCLC 41649745 .

Asmerom Legesse, Gada
Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some records of Ethiopia Hakluyt Society, 1954
Bassi Marco, Decisions in the Shade. Political and juridical processes among the Oromo-Borana Red Sea Press, 2005
Clifford H F Plowman CMG OBE, Notes On The Gedamoch Ceremonies Among The Boran, (Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 18, No. 70 (Jan., 1919), pp. 114-121 )