Jusqu’à XVᵉ siècle
Central and southern Kenya, Maasailand, northern Tanzania
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The South Kalenjin were ancestral Kalenjin communities that expanded southward from central southern Kenya across the eastern Rift margins and Maasai steppe. By 1500 they had reached the borders of West Ruvu Bantu territory, while assimilating or displacing Dadog and Kw’adza communities. Their advance was checked by the northern Tanzanian Rift escarpment and surviving Dadog control of the Loita and Ngorongoro highlands.
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South Kalenjin communities emerged on the far southern fringe of the earliest Kalenjin expansions. From central southern Kenya, they moved rapidly southward, first along the plains east of the Rift escarpment and then across the Maasai steppe toward the Kondoa highlands. Their movement formed one of the most extensive ethnic expansions described for the period.
By no later than 1500, South Kalenjin settlers had reached the borders of West Ruvu Bantu territory. In northern and central Maasailand, the previously dominant Dadog gave way before their advance, while in South Maasai the Kw’adza were assimilated or driven out. These changes show that South Kalenjin expansion involved both migration and the reorganization of existing populations.
The northern Tanzanian Rift escarpment limited further expansion. Dadog communities continued to control the Loita and Ngorongoro highlands and probably the Serengeti and Mara plains to the west. The extract states that Dadog power in those regions was not broken until the seventeenth century, and then by Maasai invaders rather than by the Kalenjin.
Jusqu’à XVᵉ siècle
Central and southern Kenya, Maasailand, northern Tanzania
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
The South Kalenjin were ancestral Kalenjin communities that expanded southward from central southern Kenya across the eastern Rift margins and Maasai steppe. By 1500 they had reached the borders of West Ruvu Bantu territory, while assimilating or displacing Dadog and Kw’adza communities. Their advance was checked by the northern Tanzanian Rift escarpment and surviving Dadog control of the Loita and Ngorongoro highlands.
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Le récit
South Kalenjin communities emerged on the far southern fringe of the earliest Kalenjin expansions. From central southern Kenya, they moved rapidly southward, first along the plains east of the Rift escarpment and then across the Maasai steppe toward the Kondoa highlands. Their movement formed one of the most extensive ethnic expansions described for the period.
By no later than 1500, South Kalenjin settlers had reached the borders of West Ruvu Bantu territory. In northern and central Maasailand, the previously dominant Dadog gave way before their advance, while in South Maasai the Kw’adza were assimilated or driven out. These changes show that South Kalenjin expansion involved both migration and the reorganization of existing populations.
The northern Tanzanian Rift escarpment limited further expansion. Dadog communities continued to control the Loita and Ngorongoro highlands and probably the Serengeti and Mara plains to the west. The extract states that Dadog power in those regions was not broken until the seventeenth century, and then by Maasai invaders rather than by the Kalenjin.