A Cushitic ethnic group, they primarily inhabit the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia and the former Eastern Province in northern Kenya, specifically Marsabit County.

[11] Through the Gadha system, the Boranas are believed to have conquered and protected their territories until the second world war when they were overpowered by colonial policies.

Since they were semi-nomadic, their population growth did not match that of their neighbors both in Kenya and Ethiopia, which put them at risk of losing much of their territory.

[12] For generations, Borana men have dedicated themselves to extracting salt from the crater of an extinct volcano called "Chew Bet" located in southern Ethiopia.

Politically, it has a system of government where the overall leader is God himself and many unknown things are referred as 'Waqa Bekh', a sentence that can be equated to a Supreme Being knows.

Due to this, the Borana have lost much of their top grazing land, far from their central area where they used to take their animals during the drought.

Socially, Boranas was known to be very kind people, especially to the visitors, a weakness that all these three colonial governments used to strip off most of their ancestral heritages, not limited to land, water sources, natural resources, and top grazing areas.

Many Borana people prefer to be Muslims rather than Christians since the religion of Islam concurs in many ways with their tradition.

And they meet a last time, again, at the end of their eight years making a ceremony of giving the roles and power of protection to other upcoming members of that age of Dori who were in Raba before.