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Luhya

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Luhya

 or Luyia

Cluster of several closely related Bantu-speaking peoples of western Kenya. They emerged as a coherent group about 1945, when it was politically advantageous to possess a larger ethnic identity. Today, numbering some 3.8 million, the Luhya are the second-largest ethnic group in Kenya. They grow corn, cotton, and sugarcane as cash crops and millet, sorghum, and vegetables as staples, and they also keep livestock. Many have moved to urban areas seeking work.



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It fell to a Luhya Jeanes graduate named Jeremiah Segero to establish the Vagosi (the plural of Mugosi) at the Friends African Mission station at Kiamosi in northwestern Kenya.
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Secondly, though Korisai was not part of the ICS Africa scholarship program, local suspicions of ICS, which was headquartered in Busia and employed mostly members of the Luhya ethnic group, did contribute to the withdrawal of 5 of the original 58 sample schools in the Teso district, as well as 1 nearby Busia school.
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Worse, as in Rwanda, Kenya in 1992-93 witnessed state-sponsored violence directed against ethnic Kikuyu, Luo, and Luhya farmers who had migrated to the Rift Valley - President Moi's home province - and then voted for parties opposed to his Kanu Party, which is associated in the main with Moi's own Kalenjin tribe and its allies.
Africa's murderous professors by Chege, Michael / The National Interest
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