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Tulwab Kipsigis: The Sacred Mountain of Kipsigis People of Kenya · 87strategy and I need not be labour it at this stage. All that is necessaryis to recommend that community participation strategy management beapplied in the development of Tulwab Kipsigis as a tourist attraction site.Notes1 J.E.G. Sutton, Western Kenya Highlands as quoted in B.E Kipkorir“ The Kalenjin phenomenon and the Misri legends” East Africa and theNile Valley Seminars, peper XII, University of Nairobi, (10th February,1971),112 Ian Q. Orchardson, The Kipsigis (Nairobi; East Africa LiteratureBureau, 1970),3 S.C Langat “Some Aspects of Kipsigis History Before 1914” in B.GMcIntosh ed. Ngano (Nairobi; 1970), 744 S.C Langat, 82.5 I went up and around Tulwab Kipsigis during my Dphil Researchwhich I investigated on the Kipsigis religious practices on 1st and 2ndJanuary 1996.6 The meaning of the word Kuku is difficult to ascertain. SigilaiArap lelgo suggested that the word is an expression of something that isvery old. In this case it could mean for a very long time or forever.7 John B. Noss, Man’s Religions (London; Macmillan Publishing Co.,Inc. 1974, 10.8 W. R. Hotchleiss, Then and Now in Kenya Colony (New York:1937) 98 as quoted in Henry Mwanzi, A history of the Kipsigis (Nairobi:East Africa Literature Bureau).