List of rulers of the Nandi


List of Rulers of the Nandi, or Orkoiyots:
Oleiyo
Barsabotwo and kobokoi
  1. Turukat The name means Blessed Mouth _literary
  2. Kimnyole, killed by the Nandi in 1890. The Nandi area was formally incorporated into British East Africa in 1888
  3. Koitalel Arap Samoei, killed and decapitate by British forces in 1905.
  4. Kipeles or Tamasun, whose reign continued past 1909.
  5. Barsirian Arap Manyei reigned from 1919 to 1922 when he was detained by the British.
The Orkoiyots originated as chief ritual leaders (or "medicine men", later emerging as leaders exercising both political and military authority. The position is hereditary, and the dynasty descend from Maasai origins.