Agumba people

The Agumba (also Gumba) people were an ethnic group who inhabited the plains of what is now central Kenya, but are now either extinct or assimilated.

They are known only through the oral tradition of the Kikuyu and Ogiek peoples, who credit them as being the original inhabitants of the territory. The Agumba are described as being hunter-gatherers, and pygmies. According to Kikuyu descriptions, they worked with iron and made pottery, and were beekeepers.

The Agumba, along with several other groups, were sometimes called the Dorobo by the Maasai and other cattle-herding groups. This derogatory term was also used in much of the early academic anthropological literature on the area.

References

• Distefano, John A. (1990) 'Hunters or hunted? Towards a history of the Okiek of Kenya', History in Africa, 17, 47–57.
• Louis Leakey (5 November 2013). Mau Mau and the Kikuyu. Taylor & Francis. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-1-136-53108-8. 

External links

• Ogiek.org article on hunter-gatherers in the Kenyan plains
• Ecological and sociological history of the Kenyan plains

Ethnic groups in Kenya
Niger-Congo	Agumba Bajuni Chonyi Digo Embu Giriama Jibana Kamba Kikuyu Kisii Kuria Luhya Mbeere Meru Mijikenda Pokomo Suba Swahili Taita Taveta
Nilo-Saharan	Akiek Ariaal Ateker Camus Kalenjin Samburu Kipsigis Kore Luo Maasai Okiek Teso Turkana
Afro-Asiatic	Aweer Borana Oromo Daasanach El Molo Gabra Orma Rendille Somali Yaaku
Indo-European	European Indian
Source: Population and Housing Census - Ethnic Affiliation