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Kavirondo
Kavirondo is the former name of the region surrounding the Kavirondo Gulf (now Winam Gulf) as well as the two native peoples living there under the regime of British East Africa (specifically, the "Nilotic Kavirondo" and the "Bantu Kavirondo"). Broadly, this was defined as those who dwelt in the valley of the Nzoia River on the western slopes of Mount Elgon and along the northeast coast of Victoria Nyanza.
Suggested etymologies of the name "Kavirondo" include
(Both putative origins are doubtful).
A more plausible etymological origin of the name Kavirondo is from the Kalenjin language "Kap-Kirondo" meaning "the place of Reeds" denoting the reeds by Lake Victoria. Historian Alfred T. Matson explains in fair detail the obscure origins of the name and its first usage at the dawn of British rule in East Africa.
Kavirondo was the general name of two distinct groups of ethnic groups, the Bantu speakers and the Nilotic speakers. The Bantu appear to have been the first comers. The Nilotic ethnic groups, probably an offshoot of the Acholi, appear to have crossed Lake Victoria to reach their present home, the country around Kavirondo Gulf. Of the two, the Bantu occupied a more northerly position than their neighbors, and were practically the most northerly representatives of that race (Hobley). The Nilotic Kavirondo in their turn had their wanderings arrested by an irruption of Elgumi people (themselves probably of Nilotic origin) from the east.
The Bantu Kavirondo were divided into three principal types: the Awa-Rimi, the Awa-Ware, and the Awa-Kisii. Their Nilotic neighbors call the Bantu Kavirondo Jo-Mwa (singular: Ja-Mwa). The generic name for the Nilotic tribes is Jo-Luo (singular: Ja-Luo), but the Bantu Kavirondo call them Awa-Nyoro. The two groups have many characteristics in common.
The Kavirondo had many tribes, divided, Sir H. H. Johnston suspected, totemically.
A characteristic feature of the people was their traditional nakedness. Among the Nilotic Kavirondo married men who are fathers wore a small piece of goat-skin (Sembe) which, though practically useless as a covering, was worn according to ethnic etiquette. Even among men who have adopted European clothing, this goat-skin must still be worn underneath. Contact with whites has led to the adoption of European clothing by numbers of the men (who were better travelled), but the women (who were less travelled), more conservative, remained in nudity or the scanty covering which they wore before the advent of Europeans.
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Kavirondo
Kavirondo is the former name of the region surrounding the Kavirondo Gulf (now Winam Gulf) as well as the two native peoples living there under the regime of British East Africa (specifically, the "Nilotic Kavirondo" and the "Bantu Kavirondo"). Broadly, this was defined as those who dwelt in the valley of the Nzoia River on the western slopes of Mount Elgon and along the northeast coast of Victoria Nyanza.
Suggested etymologies of the name "Kavirondo" include
(Both putative origins are doubtful).
A more plausible etymological origin of the name Kavirondo is from the Kalenjin language "Kap-Kirondo" meaning "the place of Reeds" denoting the reeds by Lake Victoria. Historian Alfred T. Matson explains in fair detail the obscure origins of the name and its first usage at the dawn of British rule in East Africa.
Kavirondo was the general name of two distinct groups of ethnic groups, the Bantu speakers and the Nilotic speakers. The Bantu appear to have been the first comers. The Nilotic ethnic groups, probably an offshoot of the Acholi, appear to have crossed Lake Victoria to reach their present home, the country around Kavirondo Gulf. Of the two, the Bantu occupied a more northerly position than their neighbors, and were practically the most northerly representatives of that race (Hobley). The Nilotic Kavirondo in their turn had their wanderings arrested by an irruption of Elgumi people (themselves probably of Nilotic origin) from the east.
The Bantu Kavirondo were divided into three principal types: the Awa-Rimi, the Awa-Ware, and the Awa-Kisii. Their Nilotic neighbors call the Bantu Kavirondo Jo-Mwa (singular: Ja-Mwa). The generic name for the Nilotic tribes is Jo-Luo (singular: Ja-Luo), but the Bantu Kavirondo call them Awa-Nyoro. The two groups have many characteristics in common.
The Kavirondo had many tribes, divided, Sir H. H. Johnston suspected, totemically.
A characteristic feature of the people was their traditional nakedness. Among the Nilotic Kavirondo married men who are fathers wore a small piece of goat-skin (Sembe) which, though practically useless as a covering, was worn according to ethnic etiquette. Even among men who have adopted European clothing, this goat-skin must still be worn underneath. Contact with whites has led to the adoption of European clothing by numbers of the men (who were better travelled), but the women (who were less travelled), more conservative, remained in nudity or the scanty covering which they wore before the advent of Europeans.