- Homeland
- The savannah and highland country of northern Tanzania, where Kalenjin kin have long grazed and gardened.
- Counties
- Manyara (TZ) · Singida (TZ) · Arusha (TZ)
- Tongue
- Datooga, a Southern Nilotic tongue closely related to Kalenjin.
- Livelihood
- Cattle, small stock, blacksmithing, and mixed farming.
The Datooga are the southern kin of the Kalenjin family, a Southern Nilotic community whose homeland lies across the Tanzanian frontier.
Their pastoral discipline, their smithing craft, and their oral record hold a memory of the wider Kalenjin migration that the northern communities share.
The Foundation counts the Datooga among the sister communities and works to keep the road of kinship open across the border.
