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| Title: | The dimensions of Kamba pre-colonial history |
| Author: | Jackson, K. |
| Book title: | Kenya before 1900 |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Pages: | 174-261 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | Kamba history ethnic groups |
| Abstract: | Having first settled in northeastern Tanzania (c. 1500), the Kamba communities later, in the same century, initiated a swift migration into Ukamba, an area that eventually became their 'homeland' in Kenya, east of the rift highlands. There they experienced a full three centuries of relatively autonomous development. Its important periods are covered in four essays: one on the times of the Kilimanjaro settlements and migrations; another on the years of the central Mbooni enclosure settlement in Ukamba; a third treating the ascendancy of trading within a largely non-trading society; and the final years prior to the colonial intrusion. Maps, ref. |