- Agumba
The Agumba (also Gumba) people were an
ethnic group who inhabited the plains of what is now centralKenya , but are now eitherextinct or assimilated.They are known only through the oral tradition of the
Kikuyu andOgiek peoples, who credit them as being the original inhabitants of the territory; the Agumba are described as beinghunter-gatherer s, and pygmies. According to Kikuyu descriptions, they worked with iron and made pottery, and were beekeepers.The Agumba, along with several other groups, were sometimes called the
Dorobo by theMaasai and other cattle-herding groups. This derogatory term was also used in much of the early academic anthropological literature on the area.References
*Distefano, John A. (1990) 'Hunters or hunted? Towards a history of the Okiek of Kenya', "History in Africa", 17, 47–57.
External links
* [http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/in-depth-hunt-gaterer.htm Ogiek.org article on hunter-gatherers in the Kenyan plains]
* [http://www.orip.or.ke/history1.htm Ecological and sociological history of the Kenyan plains]
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