AMERU BELIEVED IN THEIR RULES AND TRADITIONS

AMERU RULES AND TRADITIONS

By: TARCISIO F. B. GICHUNGE ISAAC KAURA NGORE

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

INTRODUCTION
By Gichunge WA M’Thirua and Isaac Kaura Ngore

Ameru from long ago lived in clans for cultural identity. Ameru lived as identities of their various clans and therefore, they lived decent lives in order to be acceptable in the community. They ensured that no one married his sister or a close relative. Marrying a close relative made them have deformed children and unknown diseases and other misfortunes in life. Also clan members never conducted marriage between themselves. It was anathema for a man and a woman of the same clan to marry.

Therefore, a Mmeru needed to know his clan and the clan pf the girl he wanted to marry to avoid those misfortunes in life. Knowledge of one’s clan was passed from one generation to another by parents and grandparents through traditions. Ameru belief in clans and relationships is their tradition even today. Any Mmeru who does not know his clan or his relatives is doomed and is not worth being named a Mmeru because Ameru believe in the tradition of clan’s ad relationships.

The tradition of relatives and clans developed a custom that some people were barred from marriage between themselves. That custom has existed since time immemorial from Mboa. Members of the same clan and close relatives are not allowed to marry. That is Ameru custom since time immemorial and since they came from Mboa.
Ameru culture is that uncircumcised men are never allowed to marry and have children. It is Ameru custom that people of the same clan and sex will never marry each other. Ameru believed in clans and relationships. Ameru believed that blood relationship existed between clan members as much as relatives in the same family and therefore, they never married.

This book is a lesson to Ameru young generations that Ameru community had their traditions which believed in God and that there were culture and customs in their community which bound people together in order to live as one community for existence.
Ameru lived as an exemplary community which had rules and regulations to direct, administer and govern the lives of the community for their common existence. The book therefore, explains how Ameru lived as a community governed by their rules and regulations guided by its customs, culture and traditions.

Read this book to know and understand how Ameru of Kenya managed to live as a homogeneous community even after leaving Mboa while they continued to speak their original Kimeru language after leaving Mboa in the 17th, century.

Just read this book to discover the rules and regulations like those of King Hammurabi of Babylon and his subjects in ancient times.