Burundu is a rural village in

Kakamega County Kakamega County is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya. It borders Vihiga County to the South, Siaya County to the West, Bungoma and Trans Nzoia counties to the North and Nandi, and Uasin Gishu counties to the East. Its capita ...

of the former

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. It is part of the West Kabras ward of Malava Constituency and Kakamega County Council.Electoral Commission of Kenya
''Registration centres by electoral area and constituency''
The people of Burundu are the

Kabras The Kabras, or Kabarasi, are a subtribe of the Luhya people of Kenya. They reside in Malava in the Kabras Division of Kakamega District, which is neighboured by the Isukha, Banyala, Tsotso, and the Tachoni. The exact origin of the Luhya people i ...

, a subgroup of the

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. The main economic activity is

sugar cane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...

farming as a cash crop. Maize and sweet potatoes are grown for subsistence use. Cattle, sheep, goats, chicken and ducks are all reared on small scale. There is only one public primary school: Burundu Primary School. There is no secondary school, most children go to neighbouring villages' schools. The village is sparsely populated, with most people literate. Some of the prominent scholars from this village include Dr Shikuku Musima Mulambula, a senior lecturer at

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, Department of Educational Psychology, and Dr. Chemuku Wekesa, who works as a Landscape Ecologist at Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Coast Eco-Region Research Programme. Dr. Wekesa has PhD and MSc degrees in forest ecology both from Egerton University and BSc degree in forestry from Moi University. The village has famous traditional medicine-men and traditionalists, including Mr. Murunga Joseph Mulambula, who is also a teacher. Some very old herbs species still exist on the banks of River Lusumu bordering Burundu to the South. The former Kenyan footballer

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came from Burundu village. His funeral officially agitated the love of reggae music among the youth of this village. The extra high voltage (132 kV ) transmission line from Owen Falls, Jinja,

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crosses Burundu village on its way to

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via a sub-station at Kesses, near

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. There is a power sub-station in neighbouring Musaga village, that connects the whole of Western Kenya to the national grid. The village is, however, not supplied with electricity. Road network coverage is good, but trailers transporting sugar cane mess them when sugar cane is harvested. Mobile phone network coverage is provided by Zain, Yu and

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that have base stations in Nambacha and Muhuni.

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{{coord missing, Kenya Populated places in Western Province (Kenya) Kakamega County