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MOROBI CLIFFS IN NANDI COUNTY

It is 450m high on Nyando escarpment at Chesongor 15kms from Nandi hills town. Morobi cliffs or Sheu (Kapsimotwo village) is a place of outstanding beauty, but plagued by frightening history. The elderly men at Morobi know what used to take place, the tale has been passed down to them from their forefathers to them. https://youtu.be/26Inj-kR0j0?si=Op_V5UIF2mLUMrTZ

The very old in the society would come and throw themselves down the cliff to lessen their burden. They were considered a burden to their families; they would live 100 plus years. It is said some of them lived long to an extend that their faces were no longer recognizable. It was a taboo for the same age set of Nandi named in different generation to see each other eye to eye. Among the seven-age set of the Nandi once the new generation is born the older generation will come together holding each other’s hand. They head to the cliff, for they say we have lived and now the new generation has emerged we have to go. https://abiri.home.blog/counties/nandi-county/sheu-morobi-cliffs/

Before throwing themselves down the cliff they would sing a song to motivate each other and fall of the cliff. Cultu re would demand they carry customery items to appease the ascentors and avoid ill misfortune to befall the community. The introduction of Christianity by the missionaries helped stop the tradition. This day if attempts to do that it will be considered suicide. The Nandi County is prioritising it as a cultural site.