 Historians 
and chroniclers of colonial government records as well as oral history seem 
to marvel at how a group so small could stand up to great kingdoms and 
maintain its ground against insurmountable odds.No wonder then that a 
proverb, “nguMbo nomXesibe” would single out just one of the smallest of 
the AbaMbo groups, surely they must have distinguished themselves not to be 
subsumed in the larger group of Abambo who were migrating into the Xhosa 
areas in the central and western parts of what today is known as the Eastern Cape province.Xesibe people are descendants of the African Bantu people who migrated 
southwards from the region between the Great Lakes and the Great Rift 
Valleys of Eastern and Central Africa.