Kavirondo

Okara is the name by which Victoria Nyanza is known on the eastern side, and an arm of it, called Kavirondo, is about forty miles broad.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

Okara is the name by which Victoria Nyanza is known on the eastern side, and an arm of it, called Kavirondo, is about forty miles broad.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

One and only one has this caption: The university researched the lineage of US President Barack Obama, finding images of Kavirondo warriors in western Kenya, from whom his father is said to have descended.

OPEN THREAD 2009

Apparently Obama has some genealogical links with the Kavirondo.

OPEN THREAD 2009

Follow the link and you find that a collection of photographs from East Africa includes some old images of Kavirondo natives.

OPEN THREAD 2009

One and only one has this caption: The university researched the lineage of US President Barack Obama, finding images of Kavirondo warriors in western Kenya, from whom his father is said to have descended.

OPEN THREAD 2009

At the same time, he agreed to assist Archdeacon Owen with the reconstruction of a skull Owen had discovered—and broken—in a rock shelter near Kavirondo in western Kenya, though in the end, Mary completed this task.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

At the same time, he agreed to assist Archdeacon Owen with the reconstruction of a skull Owen had discovered—and broken—in a rock shelter near Kavirondo in western Kenya, though in the end, Mary completed this task.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Around the launch was a flotilla of native canoes in charge of a small crowd of nude Kavirondo paddlers, jabbering at the prospect of a war expedition.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

“One is a Wongolo youth, the others are mixed Walegga and Kavirondo.”

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle