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Kamba Cuá is the place having the most important Afro-Paraguayan community. This place, in the Central Department, is populated by so-called Artiga’s Cue -or “black of Kamba Cuá”-, [SIZE=7]which are descended from the Kamba people (a Kenyan ethnic group)[/SIZE]. They arrived in Paraguay as members of a regiment of 250 spearmen, men and women, who accompanied General Jose Gervasio Artigas, the independence´s leading revolutionary of the Eastern Band (the current Uruguay) in his exile in Paraguay in 1820
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Kambas had spears along with bows and arrows and the kamba word for a spear is ìtumo, if you google you will see many images of kamba warriors wielding spears such as this one
May be. Sijui. But kusema itumo does not mean it was native to Kaos. Kao language has many words for things they never used. Like shields. Umewahi ona ngao, ya mukamba? Ochre ile ilipakwa kwa nyele na Morans inaitwa mbùù in kikamba. They never made the stuff or use it.
We used Spears to fight against maasais who sold the same Spears to us during barter trade ,but the dominant kamba weapon is bow and arrows.
My grandpa had a spear and a bow .
The Kambas of Paraguay did not go there as slaves, they were literally doing what they do best, just long distance exploration and migration, 250 guy warriors and their girlfriends plus one foreigner to show them directions to south America
