13 Facts About Kavirondo

Kavirondo is the former name of the region surrounding Kavirondo Gulf as well as of two native peoples living there under the regime of British East Africa.

Kavirondo is the general name of two distinct groups of ethnic groups, the Bantu speakers and the Nilotic speakers.

Bantu Kavirondo are divided into three principal types: the Awa-Rimi, the Awa-Ware and the Awa-Kisii.

The Nilotic Kavirondo women wear the tail, but dispense with the fringe in front.

Kavirondo is sent back to her parents, who have to return the marriage price, and pay a fine.

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The Nilotic Kavirondo pay twenty sheep and two to six cows; the husband-elect can claim his bride after half payment; if a woman dies without bearing children, the amount of her purchase is returnable by her father, unless the widower consents to replace her by another sister.

Kavirondo warfare was mainly defensive and intertribal, this last a form of vendetta.

Dances, the Kavirondo have the birth dance, the death dance, that at initiation and one of a propitiatory kind in seasons of drought.

Kavirondo have great faith in divination from the entrails of a sheep.

Kavirondo are essentially an agricultural people: both men and women work in the fields with large iron hoes.

The Kavirondo cultivate sesamum and make an oil from its seeds which they burn in little clay lamps of the ancient saucer type, the pattern being, in Hobley's opinion, introduced into the country by the coast people.

Kavirondo are plucky hunters, capturing the hippopotamus with ropes and traps, and attacking with spears the largest elephants.

Traditional Kavirondo industries are salt-making, effected by burning reeds and water-plants and passing water through the ashes; the smelting of iron ore ; pottery and basket-work.