KETRI ODA Workshop Report 1997

Abstract

The Boran cattle, owned by the Onna people in the Tana River District of Kenya, sometimes known as the Tanaland Boran, originated from the Borana Province in Ethiopia. The Oromo people from Ethiopia are believed to have reached Kenya between 1400 and 1500. They once occupied vast tracks of land in the tsetse infested coastal areas stretching into northern Tanzania. Pressure from the Somali people in the east and the Kamba in the west eventually restricted these nomadic pastoralists to the tsetse infested lands of the Tana River District.