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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.
Wangũ wa Makeri (c. 1856–1915 or 1936 [1] [2]) was a Kikuyu tribal chief, known as a headman, during the British Colonial period in Kenya.She was the only female Kikuyu headman during the period, who later resigned following a scandal in which she engaged in a Kibata dance,this was the ultimate transgression since kibata was never to be danced by women.
The Kikuyu Central Association (KCA), led by James Beauttah and Joseph Kang'ethe, was a political organisation in colonial Kenya formed in 1924 to act on behalf of the Gĩkũyũ community by presenting their concerns to the British government. One of its greatest grievances was the expropriation of the most productive land by British settlers ...
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Limuru is a key area of tea production and processing, with major factories such as Karirana Tea Estates and Mabroukie Teas Estates on the outskirts of the town.The tea plantations established around Limuru from 1903 onwards were the foundation of Kenya's tea industry.
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The Gikuyu, Embu, Meru, and Akamba (GEMA) is an organisation in Kenya created to presumably advance the social and political needs of the Eastern Kenya Bantu people of Gikuyu, Embu, Meru, and Akamba who though are closely related linguistically and culturally but don't have common mythologies or history.