Pardon me I stumbled upon this…(I read lot on African issues) while following the CHADEMA campaign…This senior Mungai was A former minister of Education having served as a CCM MP for a record 35 years…his Son the Junior Mungai is contesting the same the same MP seat in Chadema…I guess we share a lot of surnames with Tanzanians[ATTACH=full]13589[/ATTACH]
I was doing some reading sometime back and stumbled on this…
https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=AUlaFjXGYysC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=tanzanians+and+kenyans+sharing+names&source=bl&ots=x9JauqGd7K&sig=D3jvsOBjqeUy4NXWKq1s0TCVvzU&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
It mentions the Kamba are related to the Chagga but I’m still perplexed as to how Tanzanians are called Mungai and Chege.
Just a random thought. Is the name Ngina originally Kamba or Kikuyu?
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You will find that we share many Bantu names with Tanzanians… Met a Nyamwezi lady who claimed she understood Kamba very well despite having stayed in Tanzania her entire life. That Tanzania musician Chege of TMK wanaume got me thinking he is a Kenyan living in TZ the first I heard his name.
In Tanzania’s every hood there’s a Jirani like the talker here
Wambura is also a common name in Tz
That’s cross border ng’ombe ino.
Ni jina la wakuria.mrishia hii!
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Mungai is a kyuk. there was a time Nyerere asked Kenyatta ro give him some kikuyus who would be allocated land to act as role models to the “lazy” Tzians, Kenyatta sent a bunch of kyuks from Kiambu some of whom remained. A great grand aunt was part of the group married to the wider Mungai family direct relations to Magana Mungai
Wambura is a Kuria and they are more in Tz than Kenya. Lady JayDee is a Wambura
Hapo nimeelewa, thanks. I have a Tz buddy out here with that name.