A unique Wanga burial of an elder while sitted like the Nabongo Mumia

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A unique Wanga burial of an elder while sitted like the Nabongo Mumia

9th June, 2016

It is a practice that is said to have been started by Nabongo Mumia of the Wanga. And has since been copied by other sub-tribes of the Luhya community: burying prominent persons in a sitting position. Peter Gisienya a chairman of elders in Ikolomani was buried seated as required of a tradition deeply rooted, and as KTN’s Dorcas Wangira reports, even the church could not interfere with it.

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