Kirua Vunjo

A local ethnohistory of Kirua Vunjo on the slopes of Kilimanjaro by Dr Anthony Benedict Assey. The earliest emigrants who came and settled on the slopes of Kilimanjaro found a well-secluded place to hide from their pursuers and suitable for animal keeping and farming. They did not come as one but as different people with diverse backgrounds, sharing only one motive: survival, and the survival of their posterity. Obstacles were many. As they wrestled with indigenous Wakonyingo, they hunted and were hunted by beasts, and continued to live and adapt to the profound hostility of nature. Emigrants and natives blended, and a new progeny was born. Half a millennium later, the people of Kirua Vunjo continue to define their presence within a wider and modern world. Drawing on unsurpassed access to local historians, archives, and events that have shaped Kirua Vunjo, Dr Assey paints an intriguing and compelling portrait of this poorly understood locale, journeying from the earliest known times and emphasising the urge to be vigilant by wielding wisdom gleaned from the past.