A portrait of Muguna Akweweta, a Maragoli Shaman, Joy Adamson, National Museums of Kenya
Thought for the week: Stanley Chagala Ngesa’s dual heritage
‘Naming her son after the people who had robbed her was an act of unbelievable forgiveness.’
by Stanley Chagala Ngesa
1st October 2021
The Maragoli are a Bantu-speaking people who farm the Maragoli Hills in Western Kenya. They have lived in their present location for centuries, they say, after having originally followed the Nile upstream from Egypt.
