Gusii

Africahorticulturalists
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The Gusii are a Bantu-speaking people located in southwestern Kenya. The Gusii live in dispersed homesteads of nuclear or polygynous families, and support themselves by a combination of farming, trade, and wage labor. Exogamy, patrilocality, and patriliny are major features of the society.

Identifier
Region
  • Africa
Subregion
  • Eastern Africa
Subsistence Type
  • horticulturalists
Samples
Countries
  • Kenya
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