Wakamban.
/wəˈkambə/ = Kamba n. and adj.
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1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 828/1 [Bantu tongues of eastern group] Wa-Kamba, Wa-Nika, Wa-Pokomo.
1935 E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. ii. 42 A stream of..words in Wakamba ending in the word ‘Simba’.
1937 K. Blixen Out of Afr. ii. 138 The immigrant Somalis..have a moral code... But the unprejudiced Kikuyu, Wakambas, or Kavirondos..judge you not.
1955 Times 13 July 6/5 Many Nyanza and Wakamba tribesmen in the Nairobi area had taken Mau Mau oaths in the last 18 months.
1977 H. Innes Big Footprints i. i. 24 ‘A Masai?’ I asked... ‘No, no. He's of the Kamba people—the Wakamba.’
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