Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Embu are a Bantu people inhabiting Embu county in Kenya. They speak the Bantu Embu language as a mother tongue. To the south of Embu are to be found their cousins the Mbeere people. In essence Embu county encompasses the ethnic Kiembu dialect from whom the Embu county’s name derives and the Kimbere dialect spoken by their Mbeere conterparts who inhabit the lower reaches of the county. Historically both were just referred to as the Embu people.