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The Kikuyu people are native to what is now Central Kenya. The story was recorded through the work of William and Katherine Routledge , who recorded the tale and published it in 1910. The tale was told to them by one of the Kikuyu people who visited their camp (after 1906) in what was then British East Africa . [ 2 ]
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.
Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the Kikuyu people of Central Kenya. It was written by native Kikuyu and future Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta . Kenyatta writes in this text, "The cultural and historical traditions of the Gikuyu people have been verbally handed down from generation to generation.
A few key members of the Kikuyu tribe were singled out as invaluable to their research. The Routledges collected Kikuyu artifacts including quivers, arrows and other weapons, pottery, tools and body ornaments, which were eventually donated to the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
Mugo wa Kibiru was born in Kariara, Murang'a, near Thika, but his exact dates of birth and death are unknown. [ 1 ] There are various anecdotes regarding Chege wa Kibiru in Kikuyu folklore, but his claim to fame arose as a result of his accurate prophecies regarding the advent of the Caucasian (white man) on African soil long before British ...
By 1951, Mugo was back in Chicago, having taken a job as a bus boy at a hotel near Lake Michigan. [17] Drake then secured him a full scholarship to attend Lincoln University. [18] At Lincoln, Mugo felt more settled as he was in the company of two Kikuyu friends, Kariuki Karanja Njiiri and George Mbugua Kimani. [19]
Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru [13] in Kiambu district, Kenya, of Kikuyu descent, and baptised James Ngugi. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau Uprising ; his half-brother Mwangi was actively involved in the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (in which he was killed), another brother was shot during the State of Emergency, and his ...
Charity Wanjiku Waciuma grew up in pre-Independence Kenya, during the violent anti-colonial struggle between the Mau-Mau and British rulers. In accordance with Kikuyu naming traditions she was given her father's younger sister's name Wanjiku(one of the Gikuyu nine daughters ), her last name Waciuma, meaning "beads", being a nickname of her grandmother's father "because he had as many goats as ...