The information contained in this response was provided by a Kenyan Professor of Political Science at the State University of Binghampton, New York, during a telephone interview with the IRBDC (5 Aug. 1992). The professor stated that the Bajuni live along the north eastern coast of Kenya near the Island of Lamu. The Bajuni are a small Bantu community with no political or economic significance in Kenya. The Bajuni, however, are well known for their tools and technology developed before the colonial period. The Bajuni speak Swahili but they also have a language of their own, Kibajuni, which is a specialized dialect of Swahili. The professor further stated that the Bajuni of Kenya have close connections with the Bajuni of Kismayo with whom they tend to intermarry. Another Kenyan Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University in Manhattan, corroborated this information during a separate interview with the IRBDC (5 Aug. 1992).

Additional and/or corroborating information could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC in Ottawa.

State University of New York, Binghampton. 5 August 1992. Telephone Interview with Kenyan Professor of Political Science.

New York University, Manhattan. 5 August 1992. Telephone Interview with Kenyan Professor of Political Science.