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Mgingo Island is located on Lake Victoria in Africa. Its area is about 1, 8 thousand square meters. m, and it lives in shacks 131 people. These people organized the "senatorial republic", live fishing and do not allow outsiders in their community. The island is a disputed territory between Kenya and Uganda. Mgingo island was inhabited only in 1991. Then the two Kenyan fisherman Dalmas Tembo and Dorje Kibebe dared to land on it. Before heading to the Mgingo, they held ritual expulsion of evil spirits - among Africans living around Lake Victoria, there was a belief that the island is home to an evil spirit Calella. Old witch banished Calella. Tembo later admitted that during this ceremony they had to give 300 kg of fish.





1. After that, the two brave fishermen joined about 60 Africans from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. One of their motives settling on Mgingo was not only the possibility of a good catch, but also create their own "state" of the commune, where there were no inequality and evil. By 2009, the population reached 131 people Mgingo, and then "honorable senators," Tembo settlers and Kibebe decided no longer to accept the commune.



2. The main catch here is the Nile perch, a week a family can earn up to $ 200-250 - is the average salary for 2-3 months of Africans in the neighboring countries.



3. Maintain the independence of the "state" Mgingo allows that the island is in dispute between Kenya and Uganda - neither one nor the other country can not include it in its territory, and because they shut their eyes to these fishermen.



4. Over the last twenty years, both countries 9 times engage in armed conflicts over Mgingo. Initially, the Coast Guard and Kenya, and Uganda broke the fishermen's boats, tearing their nets and even shot 6 people. But then, both countries have agreed that the municipality must pay the tax and so, and others.



5. As a result of the tax, which goes and Kenya, and Uganda is around 25% of the earnings of fishermen and those and others. Another 10% of income goes to the maintenance of self-defense forces and communes. That is Mgingo residents forced to pay for their freedom 60% earned. But even the remaining 40% of earnings to help them at times to live better than the other neighbors in the Lake Victoria.



6. On this island there are five bars, a beauty salon, a pharmacy, as well as several hotels and four public houses - the men engaged in fishing, and their wives and relatives earn body. According to the rules of the commune Mgingo, a stranger there can not be more than a day.



7. Manage commune life two "honorary senator" Tembo and Kibebe - its founding fathers, as well as five more elected senators (they can become the only men over 30 years old). Seven senators Decisions are taken by simple majority.



8. The maximum penalty is expulsion of the island with it, just punishment - spanking thatched whips. In twenty years of existence, the "state" with him were expelled six people, everything - for theft.



9. Next to Mgingo, 200 meters away there is another island - Usingo. He still uninhabited, despite the terrible overcrowding in the "commune": it is believed that Usingo also lives an evil spirit named Tuk. There also reportedly moved and expelled from the evil spirit Mgingo Calella. Residents of "communes" all the time and could not find a strong sorcerer, who would be able to overcome just two powerful evil spirits. Usingo is also controversial between Kenya and Uganda, but justified it on the soldiers of the armies of both countries refuse for the same reason - because of the stay on it evil spirits. On Usingo have only a few temporary structures, which sometimes stop biologists from the First World who study Lake Victoria and its inhabitants.



Source: ttolk.ru