Chuka

Chuka is a town on the japanese slopes of Mount Kenya, in Kenya approximately sixty five km south Of Meru Town. It falls within Tharaka-Nithi County and the previous Eastern Province. Between 1992 and 2009, Chuka became the capital of Tharaka Nithi District split off from Meru District. Tharaka Nithi District became further split into Meru South and Tharaka Districts with Chuka closing the Capital of Meru South. Later, Meru South and Tharaka had been amalgamated into Tharaka-Nithi County. The human beings of the place are Gichuka speaking, a dialect of Kimeru language. Chuka Town is chiefly occupied with the aid of the Chuka human beings, one of the nine Meru dialect Speakers. They live at the south-jap slopes of Mt. Kenya, and cowl the location among the Thuci River in the south, and the Nithi River in the north. It is a commonplace tradition with the Chuka that they have got constantly been inside the forests of Mt. Kenya for this reason they moved right down to their present dwelling house.

Other variations of the Chuka migratory culture say that they got here out from Mbwa with the other Meru. The Chuka are believed to have sprung from the Tharaka, another of the meru subtribes. They have also a form of blood-brotherhood with the Igembe and the Tigania of the northern meru dialects. On the other hand, there are some customs, as, as an example, the method of circumcision, by means of which the Chuka are much like the Embu. The Chuka are frequently Meru who, having climbed the primary slopes of Mt. Kenya, clearing the woodland for cultivation even at gift the fields of the Chuka are at the decrease phase in their u . S . A ., mixed with the aboriginal inhabitants of the wooded area and hooked up a few type of touch with the Embu.