Mguya

Place in Coast Province, Kenya
4°40′S 39°12′E / 4.67°S 39.2°E / -4.67; 39.2CountryKenyaProvinceCoast ProvinceTime zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Mguya is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province.

For the Mpondomise, the Mguya is also a ritual that celebrates authority and fertility, and that reaffirms the heroic status of chiefs as the descendants of men who slew leopards and who brought nourishing rains.

References

1/94, Hope to Chief Magistrate, Kokstad, January 17, 1879; this pertains to events not specific to the ritual.


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