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Coastal Bantu: Mijikenda, Taita, Pokomo and Swahili

History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

The Shungwaya tradition, the nine kayas, the Taita Hills, the Tana Pokomo, and Swahili towns as a meeting place of Bantu and the Indian Ocean.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. The linguistic groups and why they moved
  2. Routes, settlement and the effects of migration
  3. Western Bantu: Luhya, Kisii and Kuria
  4. Highland Bantu around Mount Kenya and Ukambani
  5. Coastal Bantu: Mijikenda, Taita, Pokomo and Swahili
  6. River-Lake Nilotes: the Luo in Nyanza
  7. Plain Nilotes: Maasai, Turkana, Samburu and Teso
  8. Highland Nilotes: the Kalenjin peoples
  9. Cushites in Kenya: the dry north and an earlier southern layer
  10. Hunter-gatherers, mixing and promoting cohesion