Lolest! wrote:nostoppingthis wrote:
@Lolest, I thought the kisii were originally fishermen until the luo community forced them up the hills and that is how they became farmers?
not heard of this one but this theory by Prof William Ochieng' makes sense to me. There are lots of common words between Kisii and central Kenya communities. There is less similarity between them and the Western Bantus.
not necessarily - I have spent sometime with the Maragoli and their similarity in words with Kikuyu are quite many and it has always been quite interesting to just seat in the middle of it and hear stuff. Of course you know by now that there is nothing like Luhya. it was a supertribe created by the colonialist. My theory based on the patterns I have seen across africa - the Bantu people always wanted to go east wards but their forays were hampered by the nilotic people - if you notice the 1st bantu migration eastwards was around the maasai people in Tanzania as they headed eastwards and then northwards past kilimanjaro and later some eastwards. what we call the western bantus moved eastwards early in UG but if you notice they uniformly stopped on the western escapments of the rift valley and this has always been a flashpoint. This has happened even in south sudan where the Dinka stopped the forays eastwards of the azande.
The story of migration has always been seen to be a story of a single man with his wife walking Abraham style towards the unknown and deciding to stop at a certain place (now what we know as their home place) but it's far from it. I think the bantu moved not as a single group but as many distinct groups who were initially related So the idakho, the maragoli, the isukhas, the Kabras, the Wangas, the banyala, the bukusu, the tachoni, the tiriki e.t.c. were small groups of people who arrived at slightly different times. The Kisii must have been in this band of bantus that went eastwards with the rest across UG but also further south (or were forced south) by the Omogere! it's interesting that in Kisii culture the mistrust of the Omogere has been almost cultural - this could be a hint to them possibly being tricked... but this is just a guess. This mistrust is not the same as that of the say... Idakho or Maragoli people.
It's practical to think of a small band of people traversing westwards from the larger so called eastern bantus managing to cut through the maasai and the nandi/kipsigis and leaving no trail behind.
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