In a book that Nathan Luvai, born 1919 wrote about Saniaga Oral Genealogy, he notes that 'I follow up the Ayoyi lineage because it would need much time to document all Saniaga genealogies'. And a great effort he did in documenting what he could and it is hereby explained as we endeavor to 'get the time' and document it whole, providing a better understanding of ourselves.
We have already written about the Ahai and the Mahasi /Mbari/. They are part of the Ayoyi. The vaOgori, vaOnamu and vaRubang'a are included in the Ayoyi as the generations are documented hereby.
MuSaniaga begot a son called Ruriva /luliva/. Ruriva is interpreted as river bed. In this case a foundation. And Ruriva begot Mafumu. Mafumu who begot four sons who would be known as Saniaga houses. Grandchildren of Saniaga. An ideology that elders thought it best to underplay for purposes of preserving Saniaga oneness through the generations because they had seen other clans come to intermarry when the 'houses' in them were more stressed than the main umbrella clan. It would cease being exogamy, a way of preserving relations and culture. And the sons of Mufumu were Asacha, Kavoji, Nyanza, Andago and Mweremi.
These sons gave birth to the following great granchildren of Saniaga. Asacha begot Murindi, Kivihiri and Chamwama. Kavonji begot Ambogo, Kayere, Inyangu and Atiagaga. Nyanza begot Rivanze, Kwaga, Muderema and Udiri. Andago is the father of Rusimbi. And Mweremi the father of Riruma /L'luma/. That gives us a good background from which to draw forefathers who begot successive generations to present.
We narrow to Rivanze's generation, as Nathan would pen down with a mindnote that all the five brothers have to be followed up and their generations documented. Rivanze begot four sons. Anga, Ambura, Isanze and Mwaya, fifth generation from Saniaga. We further narrow down to the sixth, the children of Anga. Anga begot Ahai, Akemora and Namwamba. The brothers of Anga also had children. Ambura begot Ng'ende, Irava and Namburuga. Isanze begot Ndori, Gamaye and Irore. Mwaya begot Kidamika. We narrow to the vaAhai.
Ahai's children are the seventh generation from Saniaga. He begot Anga first, naming him after his grandfather. He begot Namema, Ayoyi, Agudava and Risasa, five sons. They were further blessed with children, eighth from Saniaga.
Anga begetting three sons, Anidere, Mbaragani and Endegure. It is Anidere who begot Unamu by the wife of a brother. Mbaragani left no son while Endegure begot Atigara, Mahasi, Odondi and Jusa, all nineth from Saniaga.
Namema left no son. Ayoyi begot Ogori and Kendi with a woman called Kamira. With a second, mukana muMugezi by the name Viakara he begot Javaya, Endondo, Imbwana and Obindi. Equally the nineths from Saniaga.
Agudava begot mwana ichova by the name Chavariga. And with three wives he begot the following sons successively; Asega, Kemeni and Mugunda. And these sons begot the tenth generation from Saniaga. Asega begetting Mahasi, Ivayo and Vuhiru. Kemeni begetting Namema, Mwani and Asega. Mugunda begetting Keya and Kavai.
Risasa, the fifth of Ahai's sons begot six sons. Mbari, Jusa, Seme, Ongoye, Adenya and Muhandare. Who also sired the tenth generation from Saniaga. By the first wife, Mbari begot Ribese, Azunde, Ayoyi and Okebe. By the second, Risasa, Andiva and Mahasi. And Mbari died, leaving Mahasi an infant orphan as early documented. Ijusa begot Ijavuka and Ayodi. Seme had no son. Ongoye begot Atandi, Anziyo, Onyango and Kinzi. Adenya was as Seme, sonless. Muhandare begot Ayoyi and Kibangiri.
Here we conclude the Ahai's by the tale below before the Akemora. Ahai 's grandson, Obindi, had no son. Obindi's brother, Imbwana was also having girls only. Three wives and no boy yet. 12 girls, no boy. They were born at Chango but Obindi migrated to Vigeze, back West. Imbwana begot a fourth wife, whom by her stature, he despised even after she had sired him a son called Imbuji /imbugi/. The thirteenth. He did not want dwarfs for a generation. He was a rich man, with cattle and lands. And this lucky yet unlucky woman from iRiamade in Idereri, mukana muMugezi was a non fitting blessing. Or the challenges she would have received from other wives and their daughters. Making her go back to her father. This made Obindi rush to Idereri, asking to take the son of the brother, to live with him at Vigeze now that he had no son. The mother, despite having been paid dowry for, was remarried and Imbwana lamented that she has bore by his cattle and wanted the child for him, a girl. Mwana witu avuri kogota, Obindi at the same time took for him Imbuji. He succeeded for a while because after some time, Imbwana vehemently visited and so brotherly demanded to have his son. And Obindi handed him over, back to Chango. But with good familiarity with Vigeze where grown and married to Miroyo, mukana muGihayo, he begot Nathan Luvai, twelfth from Saniaga and two sons who died, Eboya and Ifeza. To be safe, he thought of leaving ancestral Chango to Vigeze. Where he would beget Ishmael Javaya and a girl. A man who farmed and was occupied by basketry, that is how he came to settle at Vigeze. Died and was buried there. It is Nathan than would go back to Chango while grown and in a tussle find the land there was controlled by his aunts, desiring to have their children from Chambiti, vifwa vaSaniaga. Further interesting is the time when Ishamel married his first wife. Mukana muNondi. Nathan Luvai had also married mukana muNondi. To ask, they were found to be near cousins, only separated by migrations. One grandfather was settled iMadira while the other at eKegoye. And it was uncustomary for brothers to marry sisters. Something that was socially communicated, it did not impact anything. And going by generation count, Luvai's son, Arthur is thirteenth from Saniaga. And with grandchildren, it is the fifteenth generation from Saniaga.
And Ogori, the son of Ayoyi, married mukana muRogovo by the name Ambogo and begot Tito Kavehaji. Ogori begot another son by another wife, Namema his name. Tito Kavehaji with Kavaya, mukana muRogovo begot Ogori, Muhindi, Odondi, Imbwana, Rugusa, Ruvai, Aziaya, Munubi and Kivisi. He had two girls, Jerusa Kavaya and Nifreda Undisa. Ogori migrated to Tiriki at Shivembe. Muhindi at iManyinya village in Kidundu, Odondi and Aziaya died young, Imbwana migrated to Matunda while Rugusa and his last two brothers are found at Kidundu. Had it not been for the 1914-18 war where Ogori's brother, Kendi, lost his son, Kinakari, there would be generations down for him. Him and Obibdi, of the six sons of Ayoyi, have no descendants. For Javaya, marrying Ajiragana, mukana Mutembe, he begot Mavisi. And two girls, Vusaka and Adisa. Mavisi also met the fate of Kinakari at war and fortunately he had had a son called Mihindi. Muhindi by the first wife begot Mwanisa. And two girls, Kang'aha and Ungagi. By the second, Vihenda, muMigango, he begot Javaya, Odondi, Mavisi and Iramenya. And a girl called Mbiti. It is noted that Vihenda came with a child, from her first marriage nu muKirima. The son was called Anyenda who was but counted as one of Muhindi's children.
For the fourth son of Ayoyi, where descendants are, we got Endondo. Endondo had two sons with two wives. Mujira by mukana mwaRiero by the name Chabeda and Vijedi, a second son. And for the tenth generation from Saniaga, Mujira married Musibega, mukana muRogovo to beget Ruvai, Imbwana, Barang'a and Ambani. Kang'aha, Iravoga and Musimbi are the daughters. Vijedi, brother of Mujira married muKirima to beget Misoga, Ayoyi, Javaya and Kariuki. Adema and Jesca are the sisters.
Back to the sixth generation of Saniaga, Akemora, the son of Anga, brother (cousin) to Ahai, begot four sons. Kayeke, Kavehaji, Ngana and Onyango. They are found at Kidundu. For the eighth generation, Kayeke begot Chunange and Zorozo. Kavehaji begot Rubang'a. Ngana begot Ajunga, Obindi and Agadinda. Onyango begot Enonda and Nambaria.
Namwamba, the third son of Anga had no son.
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