Kitui

Kitui lies in the dry country east of the Kenyan highlands, amid hills, seasonal streams and open grazing lands. Kamba communities settled in the region and developed trading connections with their neighbours. By the early nineteenth century Kamba traders from Kitui travelled to the coast with ivory and exchanged goods with communities around Mount Kenya and the Taita hills. Their caravans linked the inland country to the markets of Mombasa.