Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a towering figure in African literature, has left an indelible mark on the literary world with his ...

His parents were English missionaries, and he grew up among the Kikuyu people, became fluent in the language and was made an honorary member of their tribe. But his formal education began in ...

Njoroge Kinyanjui, a youthful and widely respected political figure, passed away under sudden and unexpected circumstances.

He studied fossil bones, stone artifacts and cave paintings. He published monographs on the social customs of the Kikuyu people of Kenya and the string figures, comparable to cat’s cradles ...

A most valuable little study of the problems and frustrations of the Kikuyu people in Kenya, about whom the author probably knows more than any living white man. A son of missionaries, he was born and ...

We Kikuyu women truly love but ours is the so ... “We are go-getters and independent. We are the last people to have joint accounts with husbands. It’s not good to depend on a man.

But, in a country whose electorate has long voted on ethnic lines and for established political dynasties, it came as a shock to his political heirs when the Kikuyu people in Kenyatta’s home ...

Still others voted for Odinga because of his long struggle for human rights. Kikuyu elders warned that their “people would soon see the grave mistake they made to sell their souls to Dr. Ruto.” ...

Two lorry loads transporting Kikuyu people arrive at a reception camp outside Nairobi, Kenya, on April 28, 1954, after 5,000 British troops and 1,000 armed police rounded up some 30,000 to 40,000 ...