Kamba people

They do keep track of people, and the research on that runs deeper than the legend does.

Kiran McComb and Graham Shannon of the University of Sussex played recordings of human voices to 47 elephant families in Obazeli in Kenya, and the herds reacted defensively to Maasai voices, bunching up nearly twice as tightly as they did for Kamba speakers, and then sorting the speakers further by age and sex.

Maasai men have historically speared elephants.

Kamba men rarely have, and the herds have apparently learned which humans are dangerous to elephants.

Nothing in that work shows an elephant acting to protect a different species.

In April of 2019, a suspected rhino poacher was killed by an elephant in the Crocodile Bridge section.

prioritize a lot of performance, you know? So a lot of the people that come out of there are not, like, don't fit the mold of the leading man who's, like, you know, but, like, Hollywood does.

Exactly, you know? You're going to get Kamba, but who's not, like, an ugly man by any metric, but, like...

you get so i feel like that also happens with nigerians versus south africans because remember the way south africa is set up it's nigerian nigeria yes was colonized but like you can see they had a chance to kind of like have an identity away from everything.

But South Africa, given its setup, you get, because it's much more mixed in an intentional way.

If you see an effect, it means there was what? A cause.

Kamba people understand this thing very well.

I don't know about the people from Kilifi.

Kambans! The ones from here, Kadonzueni.

They understand if you see something happening behind that thing, there's an entity that is sponsoring it.

Something is...

He speaks only timidly to her, does not dare to enter her hut, and greets her only with a trembling voice.

Among the Akamba or Wakamba in British East Africa, a law of avoidance is in force which one would have expected to encounter more frequently.

A girl must carefully avoid her own father between the time of her puberty and her marriage.

She hides herself if she meets him on the street and never attempts to sit down next to him, behaving in this way right up to her engagement.

One of the most surprising, but at the same time one of the most instructive taboo customs of mourning among primitive races, is the prohibition against pronouncing the name of the deceased.

This is very widespread and has been subjected to many modifications with important consequences.

Aside from the Australians and the Polynesians who usually show us taboo customs in their best state of preservation, we also find this prohibition among races so far apart and unrelated to each other as the Samojis in Siberia and the Todas in South India, the Mongolians of Tartary and the Tuaregs of Sahara, the Aino of Japan and the Akamba and Nandi in Central Africa, the Tinguanes in the Philippines, and the inhabitants of the Nicobari Islands and of Madagascar and Borneo.

Among some of these races, the prohibition and its consequences hold good only for the period of mourning, while in others it remains permanent.

And because of the competition of the different tribes, they took from the continent they could not have the same language that they was speaking in africa so they created languages and these languages still have words that i have discovered in every one of the countries that you have mentioned whenever i go in there there are names there that i know i'm like wow so here is where it come from Like in Kenya, when I arrived in Kenya, I was introduced to a gentleman, you know, a public figure.

And I asked him, what tribe are you from? He said, Akamba.

And I was like, wow, but this is the name in my country.

Akamba, but that is .

And I went to South Africa and I met some kings there and I heard the word .

And I was like, okay.

It's easy to understand why elephants are cherished symbols of wisdom and intelligence in many countries around the world.

Figuring prominently in religions and mythologies, ranging from the Kamba people in Kenya to Hindus in India to Buddhists in Thailand.

They are beloved by people on every continent.

So to reduce that animal to just a commodity eliminates any consideration of the elephants themselves.

He speaks only timidly to her, does not dare to enter her hut, and greets her only with a trembling voice.

Among the Akamba or Wakamba in British East Africa, a law of avoidance is in force which one would have expected to encounter more frequently.

A girl must carefully avoid her own father between the time of her puberty and her marriage.

She hides herself if she meets him on the street and never attempts to sit down next to him, behaving in this way right up to her engagement.

One of the most surprising, but at the same time one of the most instructive taboo customs of mourning among primitive races, is the prohibition against pronouncing the name of the deceased.

This is very widespread and has been subjected to many modifications with important consequences.

Aside from the Australians and the Polynesians who usually show us taboo customs in their best state of preservation, we also find this prohibition among races so far apart and unrelated to each other as the Samojis in Siberia and the Todas in South India, the Mongolians of Tartary and the Tuaregs of Sahara, the Aino of Japan and the Akamba and Nandi in Central Africa, the Tinguanes in the Philippines and the inhabitants of the Nicobari Islands and of Madagascar and Borneo.

Among some of these races the prohibition and its consequences hold good only for the period of mourning, while in others it remains permanent.

I had little scope for this at Tsavo, however, as the district around us was practically uninhabited.

Still there was, of course, a good number of Swahili among my workmen, together with a few Wakamba, Waniam, Wezi, and others, so I soon became more or less acquainted with the habits of these tribes.

The Swahili live principally along the coast of British East Africa and at Zanzibar.

They are a mixed race, being the descendants of Arab fathers and Negro mothers.

The men always carry bows and poisoned arrows, as well as a simi, a short, roughly fashioned sword, hung on a leather thong around the waist.

A three-legged stool is also an important part of their equipment, and is slung on the shoulder when on the march.

The next people met with on the road to the Great Lakes are the Wakamba, who inhabit the Ukambani province, and may be seen from Mtoto Ande to the Athi River.

They are a very large tribe, but have very little cohesion, having split up into many clans under chiefs who govern in a patriarchal kind of way.