Saturday, December 1, 2012

Mijikenda traditions recorded before 1900 claim  non-Shungwaya origins. Most identifying Mt. Mwangea west of Malindi as their ancestral  home...

www.jstor.org/stable/216932

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/216932?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101438218941

Friday, November 23, 2012

WHO ARE THE ORIGINAL COASTAL BANTUS??

The Coastal region Bantus include Mijikenda group (Giriama, Digo, Chonyi/Kauma, Duruma, Jibaba, Kambe, Rabai, Ribe) the Pokomo, Taita, Taveta, the Malakote and the Swahili.
The Mijikenda people who include Giriama, Digo, Duruma, Rabai, Kambe, Chonyi, Jibana, Kauma and Ribe came from Shungwaya in the southern Somali hinterland at the turn of the 17th century and settled initially in six individual, fortified, hilltop Kaya or villages, along the ridge behind the Southern Kenya coast. Three more Kayas were built later to make a total of nine. At Shungwaya the Mijikenda were collectively called ‘Kashur’ by others. Shungwaya as remembered in traditions was somewhere on the Juba river near Deshek Wama and the junction of the Lagh Dera and the Juba River.

Here's the full story:
http://www.enzimuseum.org/peoples-cultures/bantu-speakers/coastal-region-bantus

Have a great day!

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Pokomo Houses on Lamu Road:
The relative peace and calm in the region has been upset by the recent clashes between the Orma and Pokomo. If only they could embrace the Shungwaya phenomenon and live in as one community there would be no such problems!