List of Rulers of the

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Orkoiyot The orkoiyot (plural orkoiik or orkoiyots) occupied a sacred and special role within the Nandi and Kipsigis people of Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more ...

s: (Dates in italics indicate ''de facto ''continuation of office) Oleiyo Barsabotwo and kobokoi # Turukat (son of Kopokoii)The name means Blessed Mouth _literary #

Kimnyole Kimnyole Arap Turkat (c.1840s -1890) was the Nandi Orkoiyot who predicted the arrival of Europeans ("the white tribe") and the railways ("the Iron Snake"); two events that were to forever alter the history of the Nandi. He is noted for the proph ...

(son of Torokat), killed by the Nandi in 1890. The Nandi area was formally incorporated into

British East Africa East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya, from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west. Cont ...

in 1888 (though it submitted only in 1906.) #

Koitalel Arap Samoei Koitalel arap Samoei (c.1860 – 19 October 1905) was an Orkoiyot who led the Nandi people from 1890 until his assassination in 1905. The Orkoiyot occupied a sacred and special role within the Nandi and Kipsigis people of Kenya. He held the ...

(son of Kimnyole), killed and decapitate by British forces in 1905. # Kipeles or Tamasun (also son of Kimnyole), whose reign continued past 1909. #

Barsirian Arap Manyei Barsirian Arap Manyei (born – 10 April 1974) was the last widely recognized Nandi Orkoiyot and Kenya's longest serving political detainee. Early life Barsirian was born to Koitalel arap Samoei in 1894 in Samitui, part of present Aldai, Nandi ...

(son of Koitalel Arap Samoei) reigned from 1919 to 1922 when he was detained by the British.EastAfrican, 5 December 2008
Murder that shaped the future of Kenya
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", later emerging as leaders exercising both political and military authority. The position is hereditary, and the dynasty descend from

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origins.

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