In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Banyore, like all other Bantu and especially the Luhya people, left the Congo Basin. They made their home in the region that bears their name, Bunyore country. The Idakho people at Kilingili, the Abakisa to the west, the Maragoli to the east, and the Luo to the south are their neighbors.
They currently reside in Emuhaya and Luanda, two sub-counties and constituencies. They live in the western region of the county of Vihiga.They live in two sub-counties, Emuhaya and Luanda, and have more than twenty clans. Many Abanyole are dispersed throughout the world and have made their home in the Lugari Settlement Scheme.
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