Modern ethnicities Diaspora Performing arts Government agencies Television Radio Newspapers The Sakuye are people living in Marsabit, Tana River and Isiolo counties.
• Hora • Kurno • Madharbah • Miigo • Warsua • Warfura The 1979 Kenyan census reported this group had 1,824 persons in Kenya, but Günther Schlee believes this number to be "definitely too low".
[1] Because of their language and their inter-locking settlements, many Sakuye would probably have identified themselves Boran or “Kenyan Somali” when asked for their tribe.
The Sakuye people later joined the War liibin Federation and made dabel their home but many later left and are now widespread in current day Isiolo.
The traditional camel-oriented rituals, with a nominal Muslim affiliation, became much less important after the destruction of the herds and the Sakuye became Husayniyya, followers of the Sufi order founded by Sheikh Hussein whose tomb lies in the village named for him in Bale, Ethiopia.