Gusii

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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

• EA
• SRS

Countries

• Kenya

External Links

• Gusii (Ethnographic Atlas) D-PLACE