Maya (East Africa)

The Maya are an extinct ethnic group native to the old Wej province in Ethiopia. The Mayas were a Cushitic-speaking nomadic people, who were feared and dreaded by their neighbors for their use of deadly poisoned arrows.[1] They were primarily pastoralists and their livelihood was with their cattle. According to professor Ulrich Braukämper, Maya were related to the Hadiyans.[2]

  1. ^ Hassan, Mohammad (2015). The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia. Boydell & Brewer. p. 95. ISBN 9781847011176.
  2. ^ Braukämper, Ulrich (1977). "Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia Between the Thirteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Part 1)". Ethiopianist Notes. 1 (1). Michigan State University Press: 44. JSTOR 42731359.