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The Kalenjin ethnicity of East Africa are a group of tribes begotten from interactions between Maliri, Iraqw, Datooga and Maasai peoples. Culturally, the Kalenjin have vestiges of Elementeitan culture, Sirikwa culture through to the sedentary late iron-age Sirikwa-pit culture. This reflects in their material culture and oral traditions. The Kalenjin regard music as a tool for storing information, especially as observed in odes and epics chanted and sang by boys and girls in seclusion during their coming-of-age rite of passage ceremonies. The imperative being that singing would prevent information loss or subjection to bias as opposed to storytelling; as well as being that story telling was suited for young children.