The untold story behind Kisumu County's 'Kit Mikayi'
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While filming Kisumu Today series in February 2019, we had the opportunity to visit the 'Kit Mikayi' rocks in Seme Sub-County. We had a sit down with one of the village elders of the area to understand the legendary story behind the rocks.
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Kit Mikayi Wonder
In Kisumu county comes an interesting geographic feature laden with ancient tales of adventure, culture and mysticism. Kit Mikayi in Seme location is home to arguably the most famous free standing rock outcrop in Africa, a veritable tourist attraction and a revered cultural site for the surrounding Luo community.
Kit Mikayi Rock Museum Kisumu 2-12-2016
Kit Mikayi is a Mysterious rock formation located in a village about 30 km from Kisumu, 3rd largest city of Kenya after Nairobi and Mombasa. Various local traditions are ascribed to this bundle of 5-6 huge stones placed on each other through some natural phenomenon like earth quack, floods or some great upheaval. It appears to be a “tourist trap’ in true tradition of the Tourist Industry. Kit Mikayi means “Stone of the First Wife”. Thus a tribal myth has been assigned to the formation and a Kenyan tribe started worshipping the stones placed on each other. There are many other similar strange stone formations around this site scattered in an area of 150 sq. km which lead to the conclusion of some natural accident thousands of years ago. There is nothing special at this site except few stones placed on each other. The entry fee is only 200 shilling. But the journey to the site is not worth the amusement.
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Inside MYSTERIOUS Kit Mikayi Rock
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VISIT KIT MIKAYI - KISUMU
Visit Kit Mikayi the crying stone in Kisumu, Western Kenya.
Tales of Kit Mikayi; Rock got ‘first wife’ nickname from an old man’s love for the area
The legend of Kit Mikayi in Seme, Kisumu County revolves around an old man who fell in love with a rock. But when we toured the now tourist site we found out that there are also people who camp there for as long as one week without food and here is why.
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Kit Mikayi Rock, Kisumu, Kenya - An Aerial Tour
Kit-Mikayi is a rock formation, a tor, around 40 m high situated about 29 km west of the town of Kisumu in western Kenya. It is about 1 km from the Kisumu-Bondo road.
Kit-mikayi means the stone of the first woman,[2] or stone of the first wife,[1] in Dholuo, the Luo language.
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KIT MIKAYI SEME
A visit to kit mikayi, the historica stone in seme (Kisumu West District) Nyanza Province.
FOLKLORES SURROUNDING THE LEGENDARY STONE
According to the Luo folklore, Kit Mikayi, mother of the tribe, rested up near Ndere Island, The smallest game reserve in Kenya after her long journey south down the Nile valley. She found the shore lines so pleasing that she and her people stayed.
Folklore also exists about the cause of the rock weeping. It's believed that Mikayi, the first wife went up the hill to the stones when her husband took a second wife, and has been weeping ever since.
Another legend about the weeping rock exists of a man who was in love with the stone. He could wake up in the morning and walk into the cave inside the stone and stay there the whole day forcing his wife to bring him breakfast and lunch every day. The old man become passionately in love with this stone to the extent that if somebody asked his wife the of his whereabouts , the wife would answer that he has gone to visit his first wife-Mikayi hence the stone of the first wife is Kit Mikayi.
OTHER SIGNIFICANCES THAT SURROUND THE STONE
Apart from the folklores, the stone's features and structure represents the Luo cultural polygamous family which had the first wife's house (Mikayi) built in between, on the right hand side was the second wife's house (Nyachira) while the third wife's house (Reru) was built on the left hand side of the homestead.
Another significance can be derived from the stone's structure is that it depicts a typical Luo family-Ngeso the father being the middle stone, followed by the bulky Mikay(first wife),the Nyachira (second wife) followed by Reru (third wife) and further in front there is another rock representing the simba, the firstborn's house.
MYTHS
Myths exist of the rock being relied in ancient times for fortune. This gave the rock a lot of prominence and fame as people from all walks of life visited the rock for a variety of reasons such as Rain making, wealth accumulation, warfare, longevity, spiritual cleansing e.t.c.
During dry spells elders could converge along the entrance of the rock for meditation and soul searching , where a wanderous snake called Nyang'idi would decide if they could gain passage into the rock depending on the level of meditation and soul searching. If allowed entry the elders would take part in rituals and in the same evening the snake would move to the lake through some underground tunnel down the rock base and create huge clouds full of mist travelling in the form of mist into the skies called Nyakoi which later transformed to rain.
RELIGION
Of late it has become a popular local pilgrimage site for adherents of the Legio Maria sect who come to the rock to pray and fast for several weeks at a time.
Let's tour Kit Mikayi. Kisumu city today.
Kit Mikayi rock in Kisumu Kenya. Situated in Seme constituency which is home location for Hollywood actor Lupita Nyongo. It should not be mistaken, Kit Mikayi was famous long ago even before Professor nyongo (Lupita's dad) was born. So he had nothing to do with the fame of the rock.
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I flew on a Bombardier Dash 8 from Nairobi to Kisumu. Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya after Nairobi and Mombasa in East Africa. Oscar Winning Actress Lupita Nyong'o as well as Former United States of America President Barack Obama trace their roots to Kisumu. The Port City of Kisumu is the gateway to Africa's largest and second largest lake in the world, Lake Victoria. Recently, UNESCO inscribed Kit Mikayi in Kisumu as a world heritage site due to its unique heritage and its significance as a representation of an African Cultural legacy.
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Majabali ya 'Kit Mikayi’: Itikadi inayoendelea kudumishwa Kisumu
Majabali ya 'Kit Mikayi' eneo la Seme kaunti ya Kisumu yanahusishwa na mzee wa jamii ya dholua aliyeyapenda na kuyafanya makao yake kiasi kwamba wazee wa nyakati hizo waliamua kuyapa jina 'Kit Mikayi' yanayomaanisha jabali la mke wa kwanza. Jamii ya dholuo ilikuwa inafanya maombi na matambiko ya kitamaduni katika mapango kwa muda mrefu. Tulitembea 'Kit Mikayi' na kugundua k kuna watu wa jamii tofauti na hata Wakristo wanaofanya maombi na kufunga katika mapango hayo kwa zaidi ya wiki moja.
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The rock tor which is around 160 M high is considered highly spiritual by pilgrims who visit it frequently.Sacrifices were also made at the stone in the olden days. It is where Oscar award winning Hollywood actress ,Lupita did her photoshoot for Vogue magazine.
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Tour of Kit Mikayi
Road trip to Kisumu and the greater Nyanza pronvince. Kit Mikai is a popular tourist attraction and we had to see this rosk formation.
Magical Scenes focuses on Kit-Mikaye in Kisumu County
Have you ever been to Kit-Mikaye in Kisumu County? Kit-Mikaye is an 80 feet stone holding three weeping rocks on its top making it a beautiful site to behold to would be visitors. As Irene Muchuma-Odim reports on Magical scenes Kit-Mikaye is arguably one of the key tourist attraction sites in Kisumu County.
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Week 12: Theatre + community work in Ahero, Kisumu, Kit Mikayi & Western Kenya
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