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These people hailed from Ankole and the ones who remained in their birth place have a pied wagtail (kanyamumnyu – Runyankole, Nnamunye – Luganda) as their totem. These people on arrival in Buganda, they joined two clans; nnyonyi in Kyaggwe and Ngabi Nsamba.

They are known as Abashambo in Ankole and they have several totems. The pied wagtail (kanyamunyu) is their official bird but their two totems are a woman without breasts (epa) and anything that is burnt in a house or a garden (ekihirira). If a house caught fire, they do not eat any food that could have been there or use items saved after a fire. If a plantation caught fire, similarly, they do not eat all the food that is a little burnt.