The Wanga are a tribe of the Luhya community of Kenya. They mainly occupy Butere-Mumias and Kakamega Districts, two of the 8 districts of Kenya's Western Province.
The Wanga ancestors came from Egypt as part of the migration that settled in Kampala area that formed the Buganda Kingdom. A Baganda Omulangira (Prince) called KAMINYI, a son of Ssekabaka MAWANDA and cousin of Ssekabaka MWANGA I, fled (a king's brother or cousin from the paternal line is eligible for succession to the throne and thus poses a threat to the reigning monarch) to Tiriki area in the current Western Province area where he became a ruler and was succeeded by his son Wanga who established the Wanga Kingdom with the title of Nabongo in the 18th Century
The Wanga Kingdom was the most powerful centralised kingdom that ever existed in Kenya's entire history before the advent of British colonialism in the early 1900s.
Today the Wanga number around 0.6 million and retain the Nabongo as their cultural monarch. The current Nabongo is Peter Mumia II
See also
External links
http://www.abeingo.org/HTML_files/wanga.html http://familiewanga.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!6CBEE7A04DBD61B0!239.entry http://www.abeingo.org/SUBTRIBE%20DOCS/Wanga%20People.pdf http://www.buganda.com/royal.htm
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