Challenges of Cultural Death Rituals To The Church in Africa
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Date
1998
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
Majority of Abagusii hold that they came from a country they identify as MISIRI
which gives an impression that it is somewhere beyond the northern part of Kenya. This
popular theory, which is held by many Abagusii, contradicts the academically known
migration history of the Bantu people which suggest that they originated from the Niger-
Congo ( from the Western part of Uganda all through to L. Chad).' This migration
history, from the Niger-Congo region, is hardly known to many Abagusii except those
with some western education. Even so, it remains the most scholarly plausible history
according to migration patterns of the Bantu including Abagusii.
It is believed that the Abagusii might have reached their present settlement around
the eighteenth century. Though they are a Bantu group who speak one of the Bantu languages-Ekegusii,
they are surrounded by non-Bantu speakers- the Luo in the south and south-west, the
Kipsigis and the Maasai in the east and south-east respectively.
The Kuria who are linguistically related to Abagusii are separated by a corridor of
Luo in the south. There is a close linguistic similarity with the Luhyia group of Western
Kenya, the central and Eastern Kenya Bantu speakers and the Ganda of Uganda?
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Origin of Death, Myth on Origin of Death, Why People Continue to Die, Causes of Death, Healing System, Categories of Death, Burial, Post Burial Rites