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- Pokomo_people 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"); but they are distinct tribe with own sub-clans/tribes. They are predominantly agriculturalists and fresh water fishermen living along the Tana River in the Tana River County. They speak the Pokomo language, which is 100% Kingozi language.The Pokomo mostly live along the River Tana where they grow their crops, which used to be mainly rice. The Tana River also supplies the Pokomo with catfish (mtonzi or if its 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, pumpkins etc.The Pokomo council of elders are known as Gasa. They deal with solving disputes like marriage disputes, land disputes, 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 99,000.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, 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 tune 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 Mzee Meza Morowa Galana of Wenje village. Pokomo people are musical and they used 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 River riverine 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.".
- Pokomo_people language Pokomo_language.
- Pokomo_people populationPlace Kenya.
- Pokomo_people related Bantu_peoples.
- Pokomo_people related Mijikenda,_Comoroans.
- Pokomo_people totalPopulation "94965".
- Pokomo_people wikiPageExternalLink Pokomo.dsp.
- Pokomo_people wikiPageExternalLink show_language.asp?code=pkb.
- Pokomo_people wikiPageExternalLink people-profile.php?peo3=13120&rog3=KE.
- Pokomo_people wikiPageID "3378038".
- Pokomo_people wikiPageRevisionID "605214673".
- Pokomo_people group "Pokomo".
- Pokomo_people hasPhotoCollection Pokomo_people.
- Pokomo_people languages "Kingozi dialects".
- Pokomo_people population "94965".
- Pokomo_people related "Mijikenda, Comoroans, other Bantu peoples".
- Pokomo_people subject Category:Ethnic_groups_in_Kenya.
- Pokomo_people subject Category:Mijikenda_people.
- Pokomo_people type Abstraction100002137.
- Pokomo_people type EthnicGroup107967382.
- Pokomo_people type EthnicGroupsInKenya.
- Pokomo_people type Group100031264.
- Pokomo_people type EthnicGroup.
- Pokomo_people type Collective.
- Pokomo_people 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"); but they are distinct tribe with own sub-clans/tribes. They are predominantly agriculturalists and fresh water fishermen living along the Tana River in the Tana River County. They speak the Pokomo language, which is 100% Kingozi language.The Pokomo mostly live along the River Tana where they grow their crops, which used to be mainly rice.".
- Pokomo_people label "Pokomo (peuple)".
- Pokomo_people label "Pokomo people".
- Pokomo_people label "Pokomo".
- Pokomo_people label "Покомо".
- Pokomo_people sameAs Pokomo.
- Pokomo_people sameAs Pokomo_(peuple).
- Pokomo_people sameAs m.098gdx.
- Pokomo_people sameAs Q846804.
- Pokomo_people sameAs Q846804.
- Pokomo_people sameAs Pokomo_people.
- Pokomo_people wasDerivedFrom Pokomo_people?oldid=605214673.
- Pokomo_people isPrimaryTopicOf Pokomo_people.
- Pokomo_people name "Pokomo".