Editing Demographics of Kenya (section)

===Nilotic peoples===
[[File:Kenyan man 2.jpg|thumb|A [[Maasai people|Maasai]]]]
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Nilotes are the second-largest group of peoples in Kenya. They speak [[Nilo-Saharan languages]] and went south into  [[East Africa]] from [[Western Asia]] and [[North Africa]] by way of [[South Sudan]].<ref name="Okothndaloh"/> Most Nilotes in Kenya are historically [[Pastoralism|pastoralists]]. The Nilotes are divided into the river lake Nilotes and the highland nilotes. These divisions are related to where they occupied after they relocated to Kenya. Where the Luo are affiliated with the river lake occupancy as they can be found near Lake Victoria. The Kalenjin along others are affiliated with the highland occupancy as they are found around the highland areas of the country. The most prominent of these groups include the [[Luo peoples|Luo]], the Maasai, the [[Samburu people|Samburu]], the Iteso, the Turkana, and the Kalenjin.<ref name="Okothndaloh"/> Similar to the Bantu, some Nilotic systems of governance (such as Ibinda of the Nandi<ref>{{Cite journal|last=WOODWARD|first=P.|date=1999-04-01|title=Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: Age systems in transition|journal=African Affairs|volume=98|issue=391|pages=286–287|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008035 }}</ref>) bear similarities with those of their Cushitic neighbors (such as the Gada system<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Abdurahman|first=Abdulahi|date=2019-05-01|title=The Gada system and the Oromo's (Ethiopia) culture of peace|journal=Skhid|volume=2|issue=160|pages=45–51|doi=10.21847/1728-9343.2019.2(160).164984 |doi-access=free}}</ref> of the Oromo).<ref name="Collins">Robert O. Collins, ''The southern Sudan in historical perspective'', (Transaction Publishers: 2006), p.9-10.</ref>