I couldn't find the thread but somebody posted some guys twitter called hornaristocract. I found one of the gus sources this book very interesting . It was apparently written by this swahili scholar guy who'd apparently studied swahili for a lifetime and this was published after his death. It caught my eye becuase I thought shungywaya was some random madeup myth. But the book is very interesting he goes and describes how it's a reference to early cushitci pastoralists who migrated to the coast and nearby inland area in 800 and 900s who first setup up these settlements and made a confederation with Hunter gathers and bantu ironsmiths to trafe. These slowly over the centuries changed as they became urbanized and were slowly assimilated there was a couple reasons climate and less pastoralists moving in so over time this shhungswya orgin wss forgotten and the newer shirazi arrivals had their orgin in arabs and persians . But there was a recognition of these groups ( katwa and wasejgo) in the 15 and 16th centuries of having a simialr cushitic pastoralist orgin as the swahili Patrician clans. I don't know how much is accurate since this is from 1993 (but there was some recent dna excavated from swahili royal graves that dated back to the 16th centurh and one of the individuals was about 50% cushitic) . Curiously while he uses somalis as an example of what these pastoralists traditions and customs would look like. He doenst even speculate that they might be somali which definitely seems very possible.
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