Wakikuyu wa nyeri pia wali assimilate the original people of that area the gumba who were a a hottentot group similar to khoisans of southern africa
na wale wa nyandarua na laikipia walitoka wapi?
Wokabi is the male variant of Nyokabi which is the name of a girl who came from the Ukapi (Kwavi Maasai who were more inclined towards agriculture or Maathai ma Ngwaci)
The Gumba @emali refers to were a short people also called Ndorobo…they were marginalized through being raided by other communities to the Mau Forest where today they are called Ogiek, a tribe of hunter gatherers…The Kikuyu refer to someone who is poor na hana lake Mugiiki…
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mwambie yeye ni kikuyu
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My two cents - as an elder of the tribe.
Before the famines, smallpox and rinderpest epidemics of 1850-1920, the Maasai were the dominant tribe in East Africa. Just as well, coz they saved our asses from Arab slave traders. BUT THEY ALSO DOMINATED ALL OTHER TRIBES AROUND THEM AND OCCUPIED VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE OF CENTRAL PROVINCE OUTSIDE MURANGA AND PARTS OF NYERI as well as virtually the entire central Rift Valley past Eldoret.
As such, virtually all Kikuyus have Maasai ‘blood’ due to intermarriage and raids for women.
But the Kikuyu, when they settled in central Kenya also found the indigenous people there known as Gumba and Ngoroko. These were rather short, dark people who the Kikuyu say used to live in holes/caves. The kikuyu regarded them to be low humans, and they soon DFHKM into extinction.
With the coming of Caucasian races, the Kikuyus also intermated with them, either through rape or marriage (Gugu the King of the Kikuyu).
In short, the modern Kikuyu person is a mixture of various heritages - like all human beings are. In truth, there is nothing like a pure this or that - thats why blood transfusions are possible.
Race and tribe are just language and culture deep.
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Sorry, not Ngoroko but Ndorobo.
Thats the ukweli my friend sijawahi skia mmoja just one reading news and i know they are educated but those shhhh kwa
A pure kikuyu’s genome is currently unknown but a scientific study will show a great variance within a tribe that is only explanable by presence of impurities which is intermarriage or assimilation.
Its not just kikuyu, a typical luo is tall dark and slender, but luos as we know are muscular which can be attributed to mixing with luhyias
Guys like you mutajipata more nilo-hamitic than bantu, sijui utajinyonga ama
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Nikiwa na kadot ka damu ya ujaluo najinyonga
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Incidentally, it is said that a great number of those in Laikipia came from Othaya.
Wrong “hole” jaribu kwingine
Asande sana, pewa mbili kwa bill yangu. So right now it may be too late to do genetic mapping since we cant tell for sure where to get pure samples?
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And Othaya is in Nyiri?
These villagers know more than they let on
Hehe Wanyaks! Your avatar suggests otherwise.
Kikuyu is either from Nyeri, Kiambu or Murang’a. Kikuyu of Nyandarua is majorly divided into two divisions. The Ndaragwa and Kinangop. Ndaragwa kikuyu came from Nyeri while Kinangop kikuyus came from Kiambu. Most kikuyu in Central Rift came to settle there as a mixture of all these three. You will find places like kiamunyeki which is property owned by Murang’a, Nyeri and Kiambu or kiamunyi which is property owned by Murang’a and Nyeri migrants. This also explains the cultural differences between the Nyandarua people who settled into central through the Rift Valley and their fellow kikuyus who are born and bred in Nyeri, Murang’a and Kiambu. In fact most Nyandarua people in Olkalou, Nyahururu coming towards Nakuru came to settle there from deeper regions of Rift Valley after settlement schemes. In short, hakuna kikuyu ya Nyandarua na kina Laikipia.
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There are no pure tribes anywhere. Tribes on the eastern side of rift valley have raided and stolen women and children from each other mixing up. this can also be said of people from the other side. This has been done up to very recently. It is evident that many tribes have at one time or another lived near one of the two Niles.
The kikuyu are not homogenous and and those near the maasai are actually kikuyu just by language and are actually a mixture. While others are vague because they are more embu. Kikuyu people most probably came from further north from around nyambene in the north edge of miiru(meru) or beyond before their recent history about central. Kikuyu history is actually very elaborate and it shows that they havent been around mount kenya for a very long time. The kikuyu also have a history about some cruel king which is probably a reference to some other master community.
I remember my grandfather was a bantu and the most demeaning insult he could find was to call you a ndorobo. Precolonial kenyan bantus knew the ndorobo though modern bantus only hear of them. The ndorobo seem to have occupied large areas around mt kenya before incoming people displaced and mixed with them.
If you go to the kalenjin you find kipsigis some of whom are brown like maasai and kikuyu. Some kipsigis are actually like maasai with all the known features of maasai like teeth and such. on the other hand, many Nandi are pitch black and probably more related to luo than kipsigis. other groups of kalenjin are short and ogiek are a part of them. Kalenjin are not actually a tribe though they sometimes view themselves as a tribe. The kalenjin god is actually an ancient Egyptian god making matters more complicated and i think they have a precolonial narratives that indicate that they came from near Egypt.
some meru tribes are more related to kamba and their language and complexion is kamba like. many people in some meru subtribes such as tigania and igembe are actually the nearby nilotes(pokot, turkana etc) in disguise and they actually look the part. Some people in imenti are undeniably arab or semitic with the curly hair, hooked nose, bushy eyebrows, and everything else. These people have conflicting history accounts with some versions saying they came from north others saying they came from coast and some studies linking them to another group in Tanzania. Meru oral tradition talks about Misri and brown/red people who are thought to be Ethiopians or the meru were slaves to Egyptians or slaves to inhabitants of Meroe kingdom whose name is similar to theirs by pronunciation.
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Prove it. Weka mbisha ya pure blood