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- Q846804 subject Q8628588.
- Q846804 abstract "Pokomo are an ethnic group of Kenya, from the Bantu language group and is not one of the groups that make up the Mijikenda (which means "Nine Villages"); they are a distinct tribe with their own sub-clans/tribes. They are predominantly agriculturalists and both fresh and ocean waters fishermen living along the Tana River in the Tana River County. They speak the Pokomo language, which is descended from the Kingozi language.The Pokomo mostly live along the River Tana up to the delta where they grow their crops, which used to be mainly rice. The Tana River also supplies the Pokomo with catfish (mtonzi or if it is the largest, it is called mpumi), tilapia (ntuku), trout (ningu), eel (mamba), and crocodile (ngwena). Catfish is mainly boiled or sun dried/smoked prior to eating. Other food sources include plantains, palm tree seeds, bananas, peas, and pumpkins.The Pokomo council of elders are known as Gasa. They deal with solving disputes about marriage, land, and family conflicts and others.The Pokomo dances include Kitoko, Mwaribe, Miri among others and these are usually performed at various ceremonies.The passage to adulthood for men is by initiation which involves circumcision – kuhinywa.The population in Kenya is currently more than 150,000.The Pokomo population is split into two groups; the Upper Pokomo, who make up 75% of the population, and the Lower Pokomo. The Upper Pokomo people are mainly Muslim, and have been so since the first half of the 20th century. The Lower Pokomos, who live along the lower part of the Tana up to the delta, were receptive to the teachings of the Christian missionaries who arrived in the area in the late 1870s, and, by 1914, were almost exclusively Christian. The Joshua Project site states that their primary religion is Christianity with 90.00%, (Evangelical: 44.00%), but they must have taken into account only lower Pokomo. Ethnologue also indicates that the group is mainly Muslim.The tune of the Kenya National Anthem is an African Song whose tune was borrowed from the Pokomo community lullaby. This traditional lullaby song is sung even to date by mothers to their babies to make them sleep; the song goes as: Bee mdondo bee, mwana kalilani njoo mudye mwana ywehu alache kuliloo" – roughly translated it means: "you animal, you animal, our child is crying, please come and eat it so that it can stop crying". The song was composed by the late Mzee Menza Morowa Galana of Makere village, Gwano location in Wenje division. The hero (Mzee Menza) died on Thursday 12, November, 2015 at the age of 96 after developing pneumonia disease. Pokomo people are musical and they use music to blend their culture in celebrating achievements; harvest, fishing, hunting, wedding, circumcision and also when new babies were born, this was done in the form of songs and dances.Pokomos are found along the Tana riverine up to the delta and the flood plains. "Tana" comes from the word "Chana", which means river. The Pokomo have always referred to River Tana as "Chana Maro", that is "River Maro". Probably the word Chana is coined from either side with the Kikuyu word Chania, which is the same word that Kikuyu use to refer to one of the tributaries of Tana: River Chania. Pokomos are mainly farmers and have always depended on the flooding regime of River Tana to grow rice, bananas, green grams, beans and maize. The staple foods of the Pokomo are rice and fish. Other famous foodstuffs include matoli – cooked banana chips mixed with fish, marika – cooked banana mixed with fish and smashed together,konole – cooked mixture of sifted maize and green gram/beans,nkumbu – ash baked or boiled banana. Currently, "sima" or "ugali" in Kiswahili, or stiff cornmeal porridge in English, has become the main Pokomo dish due to changing or non existence of river flooding regimes and weather that is not able to support the cultivation of rice.".
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- Q846804 totalPopulation "94965".
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- Q846804 group "Pokomo".
- Q846804 languages "Kingozi dialects".
- Q846804 population "94965".
- Q846804 related "Mijikenda, Comorians, other Bantu peoples".
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- Q846804 comment "Pokomo are an ethnic group of Kenya, from the Bantu language group and is not one of the groups that make up the Mijikenda (which means "Nine Villages"); they are a distinct tribe with their own sub-clans/tribes. They are predominantly agriculturalists and both fresh and ocean waters fishermen living along the Tana River in the Tana River County.".
- Q846804 label "Pokomo people".
- Q846804 name "Pokomo".