Jeremiah M. Kitunda - Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins, & History

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya

Eastern Africa Series

Eastern Africa Series

Womens Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa BIRGIT ENGLERT & ELIZABETH DALEY (EDS)

War & the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia KJETIL TRONVOLL

Moving People in Ethiopia ALULA PANKHURST & FRANOIS PIGUET (EDS)

Living Terraces in Ethiopia ELIZABETH E. WATSON

Eritrea GAIM KIBREAB

Borders & Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa DEREJE FEYISSA & MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE (EDS)

After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan ELKE GRAWERT (ED.)

Land, Governance, Conflict & the Nuba of Sudan GUMA KUNDA KOMEY

Ethiopia JOHN MARKAKIS

Resurrecting Cannibals HEIKE BEHREND

Pastoralism & Politics in Northern Kenya & Southern Ethiopia GNTHER SCHLEE & ABDULLAHI A. SHONGOLO

Islam & Ethnicity in Northern Kenya & Southern Ethiopia GNTHER SCHLEE with ABDULLAHI A. SHONGOLO

Foundations of an African Civilisation DAVID W. PHILLIPSON

Regional Integration, Identity & Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa KIDANE MENGISTEAB & REDIE BEREKETEAB (EDS)

Dealing with Government in South Sudan CHERRY LEONARDI

The Quest for Socialist Utopia BAHRU ZEWDE

Disrupting Territories JRG GERTEL, RICHARD ROTTENBURG & SANDRA CALKINS (EDS)

The African Garrison State KJETIL TRONVOLL & DANIEL R. MEKONNEN

The State of Post-conflict Reconstruction NASEEM BADIEY

Gender, Home & Identity KATARZYNA GRABSKA

Remaking Mutirikwi JOOST FONTEIN

Lost Nationalism ELENA VEZZADINI

The Oromo & the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia MOHAMMED HASSEN

Darfur CHRIS VAUGHAN

The Eritrean National Service GAIM KIBREAB

Ploughing New GroundGETNET BEKELE

Hawks & Doves in Sudans Armed Conflict SUAD M. E. MUSA

Ethiopian Warriorhood TSEHAI BERHANE-SELASSIE

Land, Migration & Belonging JOSEPH MUJERE

Land Tenure Security SVEIN EGE (ED.)

Tanzanian Development

DAVID POTTS (ED.)

Nairobi in the Making

CONSTANCE SMITH

The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa

KIDANE MENGISTEAB (ED.)

The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya

EMMA WILD-WOOD

The Struggle for Land & Justice in Kenya AMBREENA MANJI

Imperialism & Development NICHOLAS WESTCOTT

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya* JEREMIAH M. KITUNDA

Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia* KATRIN BROMBER

* forthcoming

Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya

Sources, Origins, and History

Jeremiah M. Kitunda

JAMES CURREY

James Currey

is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd

PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF (GB)

www.jamescurrey.com

and of

Boydell & Brewer Inc.

668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731 (US)

www.boydellandbrewer.com

Jeremiah M. Kitunda 2021

First published in hardback 2021

The right of Jeremiah M. Kitunda to be identified as

the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with

sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation

no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system,

published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted,

recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the

prior permission of the copyright owner

The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate