The Kusasis-A Short Histroy (2)

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1iampW'uga near Sansane-:"'ango
The remains . of little mosq,ues, have been seen a.t
PUI11ga by people still' living, but nO\,i, with the enormoua
growth of population, these have all been swept awe;y.
Perhaps they were built by ~ohamedan
followers of Bungwa.
As just explained the real Kusasis were never very·
numerous.
Yet few as they were they were originally
divided into many small clans, eaoh more or less distinot
from the others,and each possessing its own nama.
Thus
there were the Bimbas, the Gbingbingas, and the Gballis,
to mention some of the more important ones only.
Later
they became lmown oolleotively as Kusasis, and now there
has been a grElat deal of intermarriage between the
different groups.
The Kusasis are only one of many peoples who went
through this process of evolution.
The Zulus, for
instanoe, did just the same, but they advanoed a step
fW'ther than the Kusasis ever did by finding a leader who
united them into a single unit.
Ocoasionally the Kusasis
appear to have formed themselves into a loose sort of
" aonfederation for the pW'pose of resisting the OODlIllon foe,
but beyond that :iltardapendence did not exist.