Segeju and Daiso
The Segeju and Daiso live in southern Kwale County, on the south coast. They are closely tied to their Digo and Swahili neighbors.
Gosha
The Gosha of Mandera County are a Bantu-speaking riverine group. The 2019 census counted 645 Gosha in Kenya, and their main population lives in Somalia's Jubaland.
Language family
All three speak Bantu languages and are grouped with the Coastal Bantu peoples. Language family is a classification of speech, not of ancestry: Kenya's communities have intermarried, absorbed one another and switched languages for centuries.
Today
Census figures for small groups like these move between counts as categories change. Like most Kenyans, members of these communities today are Christian or Muslim and speak Swahili.
Sources
- Talk Africa: census distribution of Kenya's ethnic communities
- National Museums of Kenya: the language families of Kenya
From The Peoples of Kenya: An Ethnographic Reference (Kenya Experience, November 2026), a synthesis of published sources. Practices described as traditional are historical baselines; today most Kenyans are Christian or Muslim, live in or near towns and speak Swahili and English. Spot something to correct? Write to kibetck@kenyaexperience.org.
