Kisii (people)
The Kisii (also known as AbaGusii , which is also their own name) is an ethnic group of the Bantu peoples who inhabit the two counties of Kisii and Nyamira in western Kenya . The Kisii make up around 6 percent of Kenya's population.
Gusii is the well-founded term for their homeland and Mogusii is the cultural identification of their founder and patriarch.
The town of Kisii - also known as Bosongo among the local population - is located in southwestern Kenya and is the center of the Gusii people. The name Bosongo was changed during the British colonial period as the British pursued a campaign favoring the English language and even attempting to stamp out local languages. According to the 1979 census, the Kisii district had a population of 588,000. The population of the AbaGusii stagnated (as evidenced by the last Kenyan census of 2009) due to mixed marriages with members of other ethnic groups at 2.2 million.
Origin of the Abagusii
The AbaGusii, like the Abaluyia ( Luhya ), declare that they come from Misri ( Egypt ). It is said of their ancestors that they were forced to emigrate from Misiri around 500 BC.
Trivia
The Kisii are one of the few peoples who have recently used primitive trepanation . Such an intervention was documented between 1957 and 1959 by an expedition of the Austrians Max Lersch and Walter Eder.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rifts in the Rift, The Economist, January 23, 2016
- ^ History and Government Form One - Google Books . Books.google.com. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- ^ Rüster: Old surgery . Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 1986.