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Initiation into adulthood through circumcision was called in most of
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The Sultan hails from the Royal House of Mwene Mbonwe which was one of the four major royal dynasties of Wagoma and the first one among the four to settle in Ujiji which the Wagoma consider it as their homeland inherited from old Wajiji through blood pact and call it in their language as Busong'a.
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There is cultural awakening and struggle for tribal consciousness and identity among the
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temporal duties but it was recently in 2017 that the old Bene Mbonwe dynasty was restored at Ujiji by its senior members of the royal clan in
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and their geographical proximity to Ujiji town, the Wagoma of ancient Ugoma migrated with their clans in sequences including the Bene Mbonwe who settled at Busaid. The old allegiance and traditional recognition of the spiritual significance of the ancestral chiefs remained intact even without
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spirits, Vibuka in singular Kibuka which masquerade in seasons with their spirits possession dances, the Vibuka are divided according to branches of tribal ancestry with Kiruwa being the most popular with several Vibuka and initiates followed by
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population mainly by indirect rule under the local authority of the Arab-Swahili
Liwalis of Ujiji with local representatives to the town council with their old dynasties being disregarded and remained active ritually within their respective clans.
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are initiated in royal Zawiya as both the spiritual custodians of
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above the heavens and was never depicted figuratively. After conversion to Islam and migration the Wagoma and other Manyema were adherents of
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