Add the Oropom?

[superninja76]

Hi! It's superninja76. I was doing some research the other day on the history of Kenya, and I came across a group based around the Lake Turkana area called the Oropom.
They were a sedentary, relatively civilised pre-bantu people descended from the neolithic peoples of the region, with a postulated relationship to the Hadza and Khoi-San peoples. There's relatively limited information on them since they were (mostly) wiped out before Europeans really arrived in the region, but there's easily enough to add them to the game; Physical descriptions, some notes on their culture, language, history, and even a description of the territories they once occupied, including a partial hand-drawn map. The most accessible information (at least for me lol), including the map, is part of Volume 34 of The Uganda Journal, which can be found on the internet in the University of Florida's Digital Collection. (but I'll just post the map below for convenience)

They're barely outside of the map as is, and I believe also reside in the western part of the Marsabit chiefdom, in the desert area labeled as "Impassable Terrain."

Think about it! I feel like Crusader Kings fans would really be fascinated by such a mysterious and obscure group.

 

[klopkr]

I'd love to fill in the last few impassible terrains in Africa that actually had people. Pre-Bantu cultures are particularly rare and interesting.

These maps aren't super clear though and do we know more about them? Can you hi-lite in CK3 where they would be? What name list and religion would they follow?

 

[Drstrangelove5]

I attached the article and the discussions on wiki.

UF Digital Collections

ufdc.ufl.edu

Oropom people - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Based upon the OP source and wiki:

1) the Oropom were a stone-age people (per the source) when they were assimilated in the 19th century.
2) they occupied (per the OP map) an area that is NOT in the game.
3) the area they occupied (per the map) was equal to roughly one county.
4) according to the source, in 1950, few people called themselves Oropom. Among those that did, few claimed any relation to archaeological artifacts and finds in the area.
5) there's minimal evidence of their practices in the 19th century; certainly not enough to populate a culture without conjecture. And there's no evidence of their language, religion, marital practices, laws, or customs in the 15th century, much less the 9th century.