Borana people

Borana is also an alternate Spanish name of the Boran sub-family of the larger Witotoan language family.

The Borana, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia (Oromia) and northern Kenya. They are a sub-group of the Oromo people and represent one of the two halves of the original Oromos (the other half being the Barentu). They are nomadic, but recently some Borana have taken up agriculture.

They speak Borana, or afaani Boraana, a Cushitic language. Roughly 200,000 people identify as Boranas.

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Further reading

• Asmerom Legesse, Gada
• Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some records of Ethiopia Hakluyt Society, 1954
• Bassi Marco, Decisions in the Shade. Political and juridical processes among the Oromo-Borana Red Sea Press, 2005
• Clifford H F Plowman CMG OBE, Notes On The Gedamoch Ceremonies Among The Boran, (Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 18, No. 70 (Jan., 1919), pp. 114-121 )