Ethnic Group Mijikenda/Swahili Mijikenda Negligable Mijikenda Ethnic Group Demographic and Health Surveys Program (2015) The Mijikenda tribe is a Kenyan coastal Bantu tribe that consists of nine closely related sub-tribes. "Mijikenda" literally means nine homes or nine homesteads (in Swahili), referring to the common ancestry of the Mijikenda people. The nine Mijikenda sub-tribes are believed to be nine different homes of the same tribe. Each sub-tribe speaks its own dialect of the Mijikenda language. Request inclusion into relevant ontology, possibly below "Ethnic Group" in NCIT?