CLANS OF AMERU IN KENYA FROM MBOA

CLANS OF AMERU KENYA

By: TARCISIO F. B. GICHUNGE

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

THUUTHIU AND KARIBULU (SOCIAL SCIENTISTS) OF AMERU
Ameru since time immemorial lived to know, respect, and honor their God. The community believed in the existence of God and embraced the existence of the next world where they acknowledged that the dead lived nearer God. Thuuthiu and Karibulu (Social Scientists) were what connected the living communities and the societies with their dead relatives and friends. Ameru community never completely forgot their dead relatives. They invoked their dead in the name of God whom they believed had taken them to the next world near Him.

They therefore, named their children after their dead relatives to remember them because they believed in their existence beyond their graves. Ameru believed in life beyond the graves; they believed that when people died, their souls migrated nearer God the Creator. Of course, that is the true Christianity in modern world. We all believe in life after death.

Ameru lived guided by different classes of experts who advised, warned, tamed, moderated, restrained, controlled, and disciplined them against errors that would have destroyed their progenies and generations. Ameru lived beyond the Red Sea and crossed to Egypt where they lived for centuries. They escaped and arrived in Mboa (Manda Island) in Kenya around AD 1100. It is in Mboa where they acquired their customs and traditions after their stay for over five centuries (AD 1100 to AD 1650).

In Mboa, Ameru organized themselves into clans for the sake of marriage and social progress of the families in the community. During their long and epic journey from Egypt to Mboa, they had lost all bearings of their social life. They even had stopped circumcision of their people in the wilderness. The Nguuntune (the Portuguese) who hunted them as slaves disrupted their life from AD 1500. Then they escaped from Mboa around AD 1650 and arrived in Meru around AD 1670.

Ameru parted their way into their present trajectories and homes around AD 1690 when they resumed circumcision of their young people. In the wilderness of Bura, Kora, Tulla, and Murera, they had not circumcised their youth because they feared invasion by the Nguuntune (the Portuguese) who followed to capture them as slaves. It is only after they had reached the foothills of Nyambene that they experienced peace to start circumcision of their youth (Mbaine and Ntangi) between AD 1703 and 1727.

Ameru formed their present clans when they meandered in the wilderness of Bura, Kora, Tulla, and Murera after they had escaped from Mboa (Manda Island) Kenya. Read on to discover the clans of Ameru from Mboa and how Gichiaro was formed and embraced in Meru.