characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central...
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Look up kikuyu, Kikuyu, or Gĩkũyũ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) mostly refers to an ethnic group in Kenya or its associated...
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Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gikuyu: Gĩkũyũ [ɣēkōjó]) (also known as Gĩgĩkũyũ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (Agĩkũyũ) of Kenya. Kikuyu is mainly spoken...
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Mau Mau rebellion (category Kikuyu)
(KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities. Dominated by Kikuyu, Meru and Embu fighters, the KLFA also comprised units of Kamba and Maasai...
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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...
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Múrungu or Enkai) is the monolithic Supreme God in the spirituality of the Kikuyu (or Gikuyu) and the closely related Embu, Meru and Kamba groups of Kenya...
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Anthene kikuyu, the Kikuyu ciliate blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Mauritania, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, central and western...
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Harry Thuku (section The Kikuyu Association)
Young Kikuyu Association and the East African Association before being arrested and exiled from 1922 to 1931. In 1932 he became President of the Kikuyu Central...
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its peaks reminded him of the feathers of the male ostrich. In archaic Kikuyu the word 'nyaga' or more commonly 'manyaganyaga' is used to describe an...
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Jomo Kenyatta (category Kikuyu people)
becoming politically engaged through the Kikuyu Central Association. In 1929, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs. During the 1930s, he...
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The Kikuyu Home Guard (also Home Guard or Kikuyu Guard) was a government paramilitary force in Kenya from early 1953 until January 1955. It was formed...
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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...
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The Young Kikuyu Association (YKA) was formed in Kenya on 10 June 1921, as a break away organisation from the Kikuyu Association (KA). In July 1921 it...
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Cenchrus clandestinus (redirect from Kikuyu grass)
several common names, most often Kikuyu grass. It is native to the highland regions of East Africa that is home to the Kikuyu people. Because of its rapid...
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Jackson's chameleon (redirect from Kikuyu three-horned chameleon)
commonly as Jackson's horned chameleon, the three-horned chameleon, and the Kikuyu three-horned chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the family...
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The Kikuyu controversy was an Anglican church controversy in 1913 and 1914. In June 1913, William George Peel, the Bishop of Mombasa, and John Jamieson...
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to it that were derived from local Bantu languages such as Kiswahili and Kikuyu. It has been developing since colonisation and also contains certain elements...
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The Kikuyu mountain greenbul (Arizelocichla kikuyuensis), also known as the olive-breasted greenbul, is a species of the bulbul family of passerine birds...
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(a Kikuyu nurse). Louis grew up, played, and learned to hunt with the native Kikuyus. He also learned to walk with the distinctive gait of the Kikuyu and...
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Kikuyu Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of twelve constituencies in Kiambu Countyand was established during the 1963 elections...
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Mount Kenya (section Kikuyu)
Mount Kenya (Meru: Kĩrĩmaara, Kikuyu: Kĩrĩnyaga, Kamba: Ki Nyaa, Embu: Kirinyaa) is an extinct volcano in Kenya and the second-highest peak in Africa,...
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sometimes. Mau-Mau United States Black people derived from Kenyans of the Kikuyu tribe involved in the Mau Mau Rebellion in the 1950s. Mayate/Mayatero Black...
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Lemotaka was given the name Hinga by the Kikuyu, meaning dissembler, a name given to those who lived amongst Kikuyus but spoke the Maa languageor had lived...
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Kikuyu Kusini is an administrative ward in the Dodoma Urban district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics...
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Gikuyu, Embu, and Meru Association (redirect from Kikuyu, Embu and Meru Association)
association. Current chairman is retired bishop Lawi Imathiu. A cross-section of Kikuyu politicians with their roots in Kiambu County launched Gema in the late...
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Agonidium kikuyu is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Platyninae. It was described by Burgeon in 1935. "Agonidium kikuyu (Burgeon, 1935)". Catalogue...
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YKA gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience. The YKA gave way to the Kikuyu Association (KA) which was the officially...
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Campaign against female genital mutilation in colonial Kenya (redirect from Kikuyu female circumcision controversy)
the Christian churches or to the Kikuyu Central Association, the largest association of the Kikuyu people. The Kikuyu regarded female genital mutilation...
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Ngethe Njoroge (category Kikuyu people)
contributions to journalism, diplomacy, and public service. Njoroge was born to a Kikuyu family in Kenya. His parents, Leah Magana and George Segeni Njoroge, were...
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The Kikuyu white-eye (Zosterops kikuyuensis) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of montane white-eye (Z...
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