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The Wanika are a large group of people who live in the Coast Province of southern Kenya, in the Shimba Hills and the plains to the east of them. The name is formed from the Swahili prefix "wa," which refers to people, and the noun "nika,"which means "solitude, desert." My source is Achille Raffray, "Voyage chez les Ouanika, sur la côte du Zanguebar," in Tour du monde, volume 1, 1878, pages 289-304, Paris. The anthropologist G. P. Murcock also cites these people living in the same region in his book Africa and Its Peoples, 1959. (Note: the French "Ouanika" is rendered "Wanika" in English.)

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