Maji Mazuri
town in Kenya's Baringo County
Maji Mazuri is a small town in Kenya's Baringo County along the Makutano-Ravine-Kampi Ya Moto (C55) highway. This is the most southerly tip of the greater Baringo area. It neighbors Kericho's Londiani and Nakuru's Kamara areas. The settlement was formed by migrants who used to work in the Koibatek Forest, but were either retrenched or retired at one time. As such, Maji Mazuri is home to people from different ethnic groups of Kenya. The Agikuyu and Tugen people are the majority population in the larger Maji Mazuri location of Eldama Ravine division.
Origin of Maji Mazuri Name
The name Maji Mazuri was created by foreign railway workers who came to construct the Nakuru Eldoret railway line. It is said that when they arrived in Maji Mazuri, they were amazed by the clean waters of the natural water dam in Mau catchment. The water was clear, clean, and so cold that they had to leave to boil in the morning before coming back to use it to shower later in the evening.
Maji Mazuri is Swahili for ‘Good Water’.
“Maji Mazuri” enters the record as town in Kenya's Baringo County. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maji, Mazuri and town can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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