Nyakyusa

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The Nyakyusa (also called the Sokile, Ngonde or Nkonde) are a people of Tanzania and Malawi. They speak the Nyakyusa, a Bantu language.

The Nyakyusa people can trace their origin to Nyanseba a Nubian Queen who was raided and captured by a Ruthless warrior and herdsmen who turned the rulership of Empresses to Emperors, but the Power and influence of women among the Nyakyusa can still me seen through the naming of children. The boys take their mothers Clan name while the girls take their fathers. That was to enforce the fact that Her name would remain forever with equal Prestige among the Nations even time to come.

Each year at the beginning of the rain season the Ngonde assemble at a place called Pa Chikungu where their chief Kyungu calls rain. All villgaes are told not to light fire in their homes in the morning of the ritual raincalling ceremony. All the villages wait for the sacred fire from the shrine called moto ufya that is destributed to all the villages. the people themselves believe that rain cames that very day.

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