AMERU OF KENYA BELIEVED IN GICHIARO BETWEEN CLANS

GICHIARO BETWEEN CLANS

By: TARCISIO F. B. GICHUNGE JOEL KIREMA M'RINGERA

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

AMERU KENYA BELIEVED IN GICHIARO BETWEEN CLANS

INTRODUCTION

By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and
Joel Kirema M’Ringera – Coauthor

Ameru are a community of Kenya who live in Meru County Kenya. Ameru were among communities created in the Middle East like other people and lived there until when races and communities dispersed due to various reasons. Ameru crossed the Red Sea and settled in Egypt (Eenji mbuuti/Diggers of holes when planting) for centuries when they escaped from the hard rule of the rulers. Ameru meandered in the wilderness of Nubia, Ethiopia, Congo, Rwanda, and through Tanzania to Mboa (Manda Island) in Kenya around AD 1050.

Ameru lived in Mboa (Manda Island) in Kenya and they became prosperous until when the Nguuntune (The Portuguese) started to hunt them as slaves for export to Americas from AD 1500s. Ameru earlier had been hunted as slaves by Arabs for export to the Oceanic Islands of Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Nauru, Niue, Kiribati, Palau, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea to populate the East Indies (Oceanic Islands). People in those Islands speak languages similar to Bantu Languages. The readers have the homework to confirm that.

When Ameru escaped from Mboa around AD 1650, they noted the wayward and weirdness of the youth in wilderness of Bura, Kora, Tulla, and Murera vicinities. To tame the youth, old people decided to circumcise them and give them rules for marriage. Before that time, Ameru had only three clans of Njiru, Ntune, and Njaru that had crossed and escaped from the enemy at different times of the fateful nights in both Egypt and Mboa.

Mugwe, Kaura O’Becau, and Lamale as leaders introduced circumcision and rules for people in marriage while in the wilderness even before arriving in Meru. Clans expanded from three to many more to allow young people a wide choice in marriage. Gichiaro was introduced among the clans to enable people to live in peace in their respective villages. Soon after the circumcision, age groups existed in the community when they arrived in Meru.

Editors have therefore edited this book to explain to the future generations what transpired among the Ameru of Kenya to have many clans within the community since time immemorial. Many young people in Meru have inquired about Gichiaro and clans; this is the answer to their inquiries and God bless them as they read.