You can’t compare poor Nomads to kikuyu. Kikuyu are the elites, they control Kenya, kikuyu is Kenya as Kenya is kikuyu. They control the government, financial industry etc.Nomads usually have more kids but then infant mortality rate is very high. Kikuyu have less kids nowadays because they plan much better than the nomads. They make sure they can have enough kids that their finances allow them to send them to school. Those guys are one of the smartest people in Africa. They value education, and virtually see themselves more Kenyan than the other Kenyans.
Their infant mortality rate is also far less than that of the Masai. At the end, you have more Kikuyus educated, joining the workforce, and dominating every aspect of Kenya.
Yes pastoralist communities have higher infant mortality rates but the access to healthcare is improving in Maasai communities remember demographics is destiny maasais will be a stakeholder in Kenyan politics sooner than you think however I agree Kikuyus are in a great position in Kenya and have lots of educated elite compared to other tribesNomads usually have more kids but then infant mortality rate is very high. Kikuyu have less kids nowadays because they plan much better than the nomads. They make sure they can have enough kids that their finances allow them to send them to school. Those guys are one of the smartest people in Africa. They value education, and virtually see themselves more Kenyan than the other Kenyans.
Their infant mortality rate is also far less than that of the Masai. At the end, you have more Kikuyus educated, joining the workforce, and dominating every aspect of Kenya.
They are nowhere near 60% Cushitic let alone 70%.The Datog who are more Eurasian than them and plot closer to the Iraqw are in that range.They are mostly E-m29, are 60-70% cushitic by dna test (23andme) rest is bantu. They are definitely cushitics who got assimilated into bantus.
Surprisingly enough we (East Cushites)do have maternal links and paternal links with the Masai.My maternal lineage is a Horner HG haplogroup and when I deep tested my closest maternal match was a Muslim Oromo which is normal but at the next closest equal distance was a Masai woman from Tanzania and a Yemeni manMasai say their old matriarch was a Somali. They consider us as their maternal uncles.
Many southern somali clans were agricultureFarming population always tend to have more people than the nomads. That is because during the rainy season they farm well, and have more food available during the drought. Whereas the nomads have more milk and honey during the rainy season, but then lose most or all of their livestock during the drought.
By traveling with their livestock, nomadic herders also face many conflicts due to other tribes/clans trying to raid their livestock. This usually results more nomadic people dying in battle. Farmers hardly face this issue.
Thirst is another issue faced by nomadic people, and they travel long distances in order to find water. The farming communities on their part usually settle on the banks of the rivers, and developed techniques such as creating canals, and other methods to preserve water.
Just look at the Masai and compare them to the Kikuyu. The Masai has more land but their population is almost 8 or 9 times less than that of Kikuyu. And even though 1 Masai can chase 10 of them, still Kikuyu defeats them through their sheer population numbers.
p.s., the only laandheere Afro-Asiatic group in Africa are the Hawsa and Oramo-speaking communities, and that is because they adopted farming.
Your unremarkable ancestors were not slavers. Stop stealing Arab history.Bantus are not indigenous to Southern Somalia, they were brought there through the Arab Slave trade that Somali traders were involved in.
And yes other people lived in the South before us that were likely related to the Khoisan hunter-gatherer people from South Africa.