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The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya , making them Kenya's largest ethnic group.
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.
[100] [101] Nevertheless, partly because as many Kikuyu fought against Mau Mau on the side of the colonial government as joined them in rebellion, [18] the conflict is now often regarded in academic circles as an intra-Kikuyu civil war, [101] [102] a characterisation that remains extremely unpopular in Kenya. In August 1952, Kenyatta told a ...
Hostility between Kikuyu and Luo was heightened, and after riots broke out in Luo country the KPU was banned. The specific riots that led to the banning of the KPU resulted in the incident referred to as the Kisumu massacre. [104] Kenya thereby became a one-party state under KANU. [105]
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 ...
The Kikuyu Home Guard (also Home Guard or Kikuyu Guard) was a government paramilitary force in Kenya from early 1953 until January 1955. [1] It was formed in response to insurgent attacks during the Mau Mau Uprising .
Kikuyu Paramount chief who was imprisoned for his role in the Mau Mau movement in Kiambu. Jomo Kenyatta: c. 1897 22 August 1978 An anti-colonial activist and politician who was detained for his role in the anti-colonial movement. He governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in ...
The earliest account of Nairobi's / n aɪ ˈ r oʊ b ɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists.