Definition of Orkoiyot. Meaning of Orkoiyot. Synonyms of Orkoiyot

- The Orkoiyot (pl. Orkoiik) occupied a sacred and special role within the Nandi and Kipsigis people of Kenya. He held the dual roles of King spiritual and...
- 1860 – 19 October 1905) was an Orkoiyot who led the Nandi people from 1890 until his ********ination in 1905. The Orkoiyot occupied a sacred and special...
- Manyei (born c. 1894 – 10 April 1974) was the last widely recognized Nandi Orkoiyot and Kenya's longest serving political detainee. Barsirian was born to Koitalel...
- (Temne people of Sierra Leone) Omanhene (amongst the Akan peoples of Ghana) Orkoiyot (Nandi people in Kenya) Obong (of the Efik people of Calabar in Southern...
- the railway was resisted by some ethnic groups—notably the Nandi, led by Orkoiyot Koitalel Arap Samoei from 1890 to 1900—but the British eventually built...
- permission from the Kaptalam Orkoiyot to kill the Arabs. He gave permission, and the post was stormed. Some accounts credit the Orkoiyot's charms with making the...
- 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");...
- List of Rulers of the Nandi (Kenya), or Orkoiyots: (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Oleiyo Barsabotwo and kobokoi Turukat (son...
- authority for arbitration and conflict resolution. Operational in Nandi, the Orkoiyot institution was communed to Kipsigis not later than 1850, after the ousting...
- most tenacious. The Nandi resistance was led by Koitalel Arap Samoei, the Orkoiyot of the Nandi at the time. On 19 October 1905, on the grounds of what is...