Official Name: | Mguya |
Pushpin Map: | Kenya |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name: | Kenya |
Subdivision Name1: | Coast Province |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | -4.67°N 39.2°W |
Mguya is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province.
For the Mpondomise, the Mguya is also a ritual that celebrates authority and fertility, and that reaffirms the heroic status of chiefs as the descendants of men who slew leopards and who brought nourishing rains.
1/94, Hope to Chief Magistrate, Kokstad, January 17, 1879; this pertains to events not specific to the ritual.