Slave trade was based at zanzibar and raids were carried out in tanganyika. There are no reports of slave traders such as Tipu tip operating in what became kenyan territory but they would move from bagamoyo all the way to mwanza on lake victoria. Of course shimoni area of kenya which borders TZ was affected. Also it was very difficult to penetrate maasai country to the north of tz and the maasais would rather die than be taken as slaves.

Here's an interesting story about afro Iranians who are mostly descended from slaves captured from East Africa. It's amazing that none of this stuff exists in our history lessons.

https://www.asiabyafrica...-iranians-slavery-legacy

page 331 vol I

there is an uninhabited district in Kikuyuland because it was deserted to escape from slaving raids by the Kamba. this shows you that some Kikuyu people were captured as slaves and probably sold to the coast by the Kamba just as elsewhere in the text that some Kamba slaves were found among the Kikuyu

thanks for this valuable contribution.

based on the much I've read, it seems that slavery used to happen during famines. people would run out of food and they would have no option but to exchange their children and sometimes women for food. additionally, this happened when there was a raid or a war.

Did some of the slaves captured in the interior of Kenya leave via Mombasa or there was only the Zanzibar route?

I find it most interesting that after the long Arab domination in Zanzibar, it took one John Okello from Zanzibar to lead the locals to overthrow the Sultan and put an end to their perhaps 1,000 year long domination at the coast and the chief slave trading centre in East Africa through which perhaps millions of East Africans were sold off"

Field Marshall John Okello was a Lango from Uganda who had lived in Kenya. When he got to Zanzibar he roused the people against their Arab rulers.

"Okello left for Zanzibar in 1963, where he contacted the leaders of the Afro-Shirazi Youth League, the youth organisation of the Afro-Shirazi Party. The Youth League strove for a revolution in order to break the power of the Arabs. On Zanzibar, Okello was also a member of the Painters Union, being a house painter, which gave a regular salary and allowed to move around the island, supposedly giving speeches at union branches, but in reality to organize a revolution to overthrow the sultan. In his free time, he built up a small army of determined African nationalists. This army was required to hold themselves to the strict rules of Okello: sexual abstinence, no raw meat, and no alcohol.

The highly religious Okello was convinced he had been given orders in his dreams by God to break the powerful position of the Arabs and to find a revolutionary state on Zanzibar and Pemba. Okello also said that he received orders from God, when still in Uganda, by how he observed the position of stones in a stream." ...

"On 12 January 1964, with popular support from the island's native African majority, Okello and his men fought their way to the capital of Zanzibar, Stone Town, where the sultan lived. Even though they were poorly armed, Okello and his men surprised the police force of Zanzibar and they took power."

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Okello

So ended the reign of the Arab rulers of the East African coast and the centre of the East African slave trade.

It is untrue Waiyaki and his brother Githieya were Maasais. His father was Hinga wa Ngekenya and the mother was Ngina, also known as Nyambutu.

Captain Fredrick Lugard arrived at Waiyakis territory in Dagoretti on October 10, 1890, on his way to Uganda.

On arrival, Lugard acting on behalf of Imperial British East African Company (IBEA), made a treaty with Waiyaki, and was given land at Kihumo and constructed a fort where Kihumo PCEA church stands today.

You should read the book "Muthamaki Waiyaki wa Hinga" written by Lawyer Njoroge Regeru who is one of his descendants where he says that Waiyaki wa Hinga came from Masailand. You can check out an article written on the Nairobi Law Monthly about this book - https://nairobilawmonthl...-wa-hinga-to-maa-roots/

According to the book Waiyaki was a full blooded Masai that escaped into Kikuyuland.

Confirming this is Wambui Otieno

Though it is not possible to say when Waiyaki was born, one of his great grand daughters, Wambui Otieno in her book, Mau Mau Daughter, A Life History, gives credence to Waiyaiki’s Maasai lineage.

According to Wambui, Waiyaki’s parents had migrated from Maasai in the mid 19th century and were adopted by the Gathecha family, where Jomo Kenyatta later got his fourth wife, Mama Ngina.

Wambui explains that Waiyaki forged closer ties with the original owners of the land in Dagoretti, the Dorobo, also known as Olgiek, from where he was to marry.

I prefer reading my history from books written in the 1800s by the explorers coz they record facts as they were at the time not books written in 2010 by so called descendants.