Pokot

The Pokot live among the hills and dry lowlands west of the Rift Valley. Many eastern Pokot lineages trace their origins to the country between Mount Sekerr, the northern Cherangani hills and the Suam River. Their traditions remember a number of communities in these uplands, including the Kasauria, with ties of clan and generation linking people across the grazing country. Around 1800, the Kasauria began to expand towards the lowlands and adopted an initiation-set system from the neighbouring Karamojong. Herding and cultivation remained important in different parts of Pokot country, as families moved between the hills and the drier plains.

The later city of Kapenguria lies here.