Kusadikika wrote:
Closer to home what intrigues me is the connection between the Merus and the Kisiis. They are so similar, could it be that they are the same people? At what point did they separate?
Wako related. Historian Prof Ochieng once wrote about this. He pointed to the many similarities in language, names(Mugambi-Mogambi, Mungai-Mongai, Mararo-Moraro), culture etc
According to him, the theory that Mt Kenya Bantus came from the South is incomplete. For them to come from the South, they passed via western Kenya and left their close brothers the Abagusii there.
There developed differences after that between the Abagusii and their brothers because of environment and their interaction with neighbouring tribes(eg the Abagusii interacted with the Luo and ended up copying their names while Mt Kenya people interacted with the Maasai