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Kikuyu is a town in Kiambu County, Kenya, which grew from a settlement of colonial missionaries. The town is located about 20 km (12 mi) northwest of central Nairobi . It is about 20 minutes from Nairobi via a number of routes, including a dual carriage road ,the Southern Bypass and has a railway station on the Mombasa – Malaba Railway Line.
Traditional Kikuyu music has existed for generations up to 1888, when colonialism disrupted their life. Before 1888 and well into the 1920s, Kikuyu music included Kibaata, Nduumo and Muthunguci. Cultural loss increased as urbanization and modernization impacted on indigenous knowledge, including the ability to play the mũtũrĩrũ – an ...
Most of those who settled there were Kenyans from up country, largely members of the Kikuyu community who had been living in Tanzania but decided to return home because of the changing political climate. The Kikuyu tribe, which is traditionally a farming community, mostly populates this area.
The city consists predominantly of ethnic communities such as the Kikuyu people, Kalenjin, Luhya, Gusii, Luo, and people of Indian descent. Moreover, some settler families still live in the area today. However, the majority, about 70% of Nakuru's population is the Kikuyu community with the Kalenjin coming in second place.
Name Born Died Additional Notes Jaramogi Oginga Odinga: October 1911 20 January 1994: Joryme Okoth was a Luo chieftain: Harry Thuku: 1895: 1970: Politician: James Beauttah: Led the Kikuyu Central Association, Kenya's first all-African political organization. With Joseph Kang'ethe and later Jomo Kenyatta in 1924.
A traditional Kikuyu house, similar to that in which Kenyatta would have lived in Ngenda. A member of the Kikuyu people, Kenyatta was born with the name Kamau in the small rural village of Ngenda. [2] Birth records were not then kept among the Kikuyu, and Kenyatta's date of birth is not known. [3]
Thuku later retired to a successful life in coffee-farming in Kabete, Central province, Kenya. One of the first Kikuyu to win a coffee licence, in 1959 he became the first African board member of the Kenya Planters Coffee Union. [14] [15] He died on 14 June 1970. [16] After independence, Harry Thuku Road in Nairobi was named after him. [17]
Ruiru is a municipality and sub-county in Kiambu County, Kenya.It sits within the greater Nairobi Metropolitan region.According to the 2019 national population census, Ruiru was the 4th largest urban centre in Kenya by population.