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

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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!

THE SHUNGWAYA PHENOMENON

The spread of some Bantu to the northern coast of East Africa during the 1st millennium ce is supported by the memory of a settlement area named Shungwaya situated to the north of the Tana River. Shungwaya appears to have had its heyday as a Bantu settlement area between perhaps the 12th and the 15th centuries, after which it was subjected to a full-scale invasion of Cushitic-speaking Oromo..

(article originally published by Encyclopiedia Brittanica)

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