Not true. I know quite a number of families whose grandpas were Maasais captured during raids.

Kenyan tribes on the coast seemed to have borne a big loss of population to the East African slave trade. Here's an excerpt

According to the traditions of the Pokomo, a Bantu-speaking people residing on the banks of the Tana River south of Lamu, sometime before the nineteenth century Swahili from the Lamu archipelago had imposed on Pokomo villages under their authority a tribute of two boys and two girls from each big village and one of each for small settlements. The
presence of Pokomo smiths of slave origin in Siyu seems to confirm this.

H. Brown, “History of Siyu: The Development and Decline of a Swahili Town on the Northern Kenya Coast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ne...hing_for_my_slave_roots

This is a great story about a man who sets to figure out his black roots. It shows how banks like Barclays Bank are partly there because of the wealth that was got from the sale of slaves.

For a long time in Africa and Kenya in particular this has been the scene of an unimaginable scale of human exploitation. I wonder which companies still exist in Kenya or wealth that have been built on the back of the East African slave trade.

That would be truly amazing. It would finally shed some light on the hidden east African slave trade and I think Kenyans would be shocked by the scale at which it happened here. Unfortunately, Kenyan culture is such as to repress uncomfortable truths ...

Still find it hard to believe that we have Akamba slave descendants in South America

East coast of Africa to America? Odd.

That's probably because you have not got deeper into the history of the East African coast. Ships from even the east coast of the United States came to East Africa and bought slaves off. Same thing for the Portuguese who are more likely to have sent off people to the Americas.

The French were the most notorious because of sending people off to Mauritius to work in Sugar Plantations.

It's a shameful part of our history that is conveniently swept under the carpet.

Indeed, a DNA testing study is needed for African descendants living in the Gulf and Asia.

Afro-Iranians who are mostly descendants of Bantus from South East Africa are another interesting group.
The link is here.


You have to admit the word Bandari and Bambasi sound very Swahili-ish.