SAMSON LIPUKA FAMILY LINE
The Lipuka Family has it's origins around the Lake Victoria in Western Kenya.. A once aristocratic family, disagreements
with regard to inheritance led to it's disintegration; One branch remained around Lake Victoria and has extended to the East
of Uganda, The second moved East and settled around the coastal city of Mombasa, The third went south and is now settled in
Central Tanzania. The Family line you see here is the one that settled at the coast of Mombasa at Mazeras, twenty kilometers
to the West of Mombasa, along the Mombasa - Nairobi Highway. The other branches will be added later.
SAMSON LIPUKA
MRS. GRACE NADZUA LIPUKA
MARTHA ACHOLA LIPUKA
SARAH NG'AMBWA LIPUKA
DANIEL MASUMBUKO LIPUKA
MRS ROSE LIPUKA
SAMSON LIPUKA
SAMMUEL ABWAO LIPUKA
MRS SOPHIE NACHIRO LIPUKA
SAMSON LIPUKA
SOPHIE NACHIRO LIPUKA
DAVID LUSAKHA LIPUKA
MARTHA WANJIRU LIPUKA
SILAS MAKINDA LIPUKA
MRS EDITH LIPUKA
SAMSEIF LIPUKA
JONATHAN LIPUKA
DEON LIPUKA
JOSEPH DZUYA LIPUKA
MRS JEDDIDAH LIPUKA
SOPHIE LIPUKA
FENNY LIPUKA
SAMUEL LIPUKA
SOPHIE LIPUKA
SARAH NG'AMBWA LIPUKA
WILLIAM CHARO
MARGARET CHARO
SOPHIE NACHIRO CHARO
SAMUEL CHARO
GRACE NADZUA LIPUKA
SAMUEL LIPUKA
SILAS MAKINDA LIPUKA
FENNY TATU LIPUKA
CHARLES TSUMA
ESTHER NYAMVULA
SAMUEL NGALA LIPUKA
MRS WAMBUI LIPUKA
SAMUEL LIPUKA
SOPHIE NADZUA LIPUKA
NJERI LIPUKA
SELINAH LIPUKA
ZACHARIAH MBOVU LIPUKA
DANIEL MASUMBUKO LIPUKA
HANRY MATANO LIPUKA
MRS JOYCE LIPUKA
SAMUEL LIPUKA
SOPHIE LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA LIPUKA
MRS MONICAH WAMBOI LIPUKA
PETER WAWERU LIPUKA
MRS SARAH LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA LIPUKA
MONICAH WAMBOI LIPUKA
GRACE NADZUA LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA
MARTHA ACHOLA LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA
MARY NDUTA LIPUKA
JONATHAN JENJELE LIPUKA
MRS MARY MOSE LIPUKA
SAMSON LIPUKA
STANLEY KUPATA LIPUKA
ALICE MBEYU LIPUKA
JONATHAN JENJELE LIPUKA
NAOMI LIPUKA
ZACHARIAH MBOVU LIPUKA
MRS EDITH HILL LIPUKA
GRACE NADZUA LIPUKA
ZACHARIAH MBOVU
ASPHAT LIPUKA
NOAH LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA
EMILY KITAMBARA LIPUKA
SAMSON LIPUKA
MRS. NANCY LIPUKA
NOAH LIPUKA
BEATRICE LIPUKA
HAPPY LIPUKA
CAROLINE LIPUKA
DAVID LISAKHA LIPUKA
CECIL JIRA LIPUKA
NAMES
You will have noted by now that there are many names which have been repeated several times. This is due to customs in
our region. Custom dictates that the first son is named after the paternal grandfather, first daughter after the paternal
grandmother, followed by maternal grandfather and grandmother respectively, then uncles and aunts of the parents of the child,
etc.
While in some communities it is permitted to name children after people who are still living, within the Lipuka clan,
the child named after a person who has since died is recognised as the true inheritor of the name. Thus, Samson Lipuka, son
of Samuel Lipuka is the Head of the entire Lipuka Clan in East Africa, a position inherited from his father, even though he
is not the first-born son in the Family.
ABOUT SAMSON LIPUKA
Samson Lipuka left home around the Lake Victoria at an early age. This was just around the time of the First World War.
By the standards of the day, he was relatively well-educated. Following disagreemants with other members of his Family over
inheritance, he left his ancestral home with his younger brothers Daniel Osiri and Samuel Obwao. He arrived in Nairobi
weeks later, then just a tin-roofed crowded dwelling. Because he could read and write, and speak some English, he was employed
at a coffee farm just outside Nairobi as a clerk by a white farmer.
A position for a Supervisor in which an African with passable English was needed, was created at the then Kenya Uganda
Railways, a combination of Kenya Railways and the Ports Authority. Samson Lipuka was recommended by his employer, and he thus
found himself travelling to the Coast of Kenya for the first time. His younger brothers opted to travel South and ended up
in Tanzania where the other branch of the Lipuka Family still lives.
Samson Lipuka married a local girl from the Coast, a girl of the Duruma Tribe, Grace, second born of three daughters
of Jira, a Duruma Clan Elder. The three sisters, Mary Mbeyu, Grace Nadzua and Alice were the first Duruma girls to go to school
and join the Christian faith.
The first son, Daniel, was to become the first African Director of Social Services.
Samson Lipuka was well-known for his generosity. During the second World War, there were shortages of food in Kenya.
To make matters worse, locusts invaded Kenya. For Samson Lipuka, this did not pose much of a problem, He was receiving rations,
which he routinely shared with his in-laws and friends. And he was well-regarded as a sportsman.
When Samson Lipuka died, the responsibility of fatherhood, fell upon the shoulders of his second son Samuel Lipuka. Unfortunately
the first son Daniel had died earlier. Samuel was still in school, and had to cut short his education to get a job and take
care of his younger brothers.
Daughters had been born to Samson Lipuka and Grace, but they had all died young.
Samuel Abwao Lipuka did succeed in taking all his younger brothers to school and even send them to college.
FAMILY RECONCILIATION
Until his death, Samson Lipuka went back to the land of his birth only once, to collect and bring back to the Coast his
son Samuel. The larger Lipuka Family in Western Kenya had come and taken young Samuel to Western Kenya to inherit his father's
land and position. He stayed there for 6 months, and plans were at an advanced stage to get him a wife as required by custom.
A house had been put up for him.
But the older Samson Lipuka did not want the position any more. He went and took his son back to the coast of Kenya .
At his deathbed, his last wish was that none of his direct descendants go back to the original home for the purpose of reclaiming
his title.
Of course, effords have been made for Samson Lipuka, son of Samuel, and Kenyan broadcaster, to go back and inherit the
title and property as he is regarded as the Head of the Lipuka Family in East Africa as well as the greater community. So
far he has not shown any inclination to take up the offer, although he meets and corresponds with his cousins and other relatives
within East Africa,. and leads in the family functions.
The Lipuka Family can be found in many professions, from aviation, to the media, to politics, business, education, engineering,
the Civil Service etc. And through marriage, it is connected and related to virtially all the major families within East Africa
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