introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population...

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...

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...

list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national...

marked by ethnic hostility, with Kibaki a member of the traditionally dominant Kikuyu ethnic group, gaining much support amongst the Kikuyu and neighbouring...

consulting élite African opinion. The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. However, the leadership of KAU was multitribal. Wycliff Awori...

had a population of 47,564,296 by 2019. The largest native ethnic groups were the Kikuyu (8,148,668), Luhya (6,820,000), Kalenjin (6,358,113), Luo (5...

list of contemporary ethnic groups. There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated...

game Kikuyu boys used to play at the time of their circumcision. Majdalany also says the British simply used the name as a label for the Kikuyu ethnic community...

borrowed from the original inhabitants of the area who were mainly of the Kikuyu ethnic group. Kitisuru forms part of Kitisuru Ward, an electoral division within...

Mombasa – Malaba Railway Line. The town is named after the Kikuyu/Gĩkũyũ people, the major ethnicity that settled in the area. As of 2019, the total population...

neocolonial, of favouring Kikuyu over other ethnic groups, and of facilitating the growth of widespread corruption. A member of the Kikuyu people, Kenyatta was...

their language fluently, as did his siblings. He was initiated into the Kikuyu ethnic group, an event of which he never spoke, as he was sworn to secrecy...

was a nurse. Maina is the third of four children, and belongs to the Kikuyu ethnic group. At the age of 14, he learned to play basketball playing barefoot...

70 ethnic groups; the most populous of which are the Kikuyu, at about 20 percent of the population. Together, the five largest groups—the Kikuyu, Luo...

Mungiki is a banned ethnic organisation in Kenya. The name (mũngĩkĩ, [mo.ᵑɡe.ke]) means "a united people" or "multitude" in the Kikuyu language. The religion...

unique to it that were derived from local Bantu languages such as Kiswahili, Kikuyu and Nilotic languages such as Dholuo. It has been developing since colonisation...

territories and some quasi-states according to their proportional ethnic population composition. Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore...

drawn from Swahili, Sheng borrows from the languages of some of the largest ethnic groups in Kenya, including Luhya, Gĩkũyũ, Luo and Kamba. Words are also...

in Kambui in Kiambu district of Central Kenya. His family were Kikuyu, one of the ethnic groups that lost the largest amount of land to white settlers...

Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities with Land ownership cited as one of key reasons for the conflict. In 2012, clashes over cattle between the ethnic groups in...

southwest flank of Mount Kenya. Local people are predominantly of the Kikuyu ethnicity. LOCAL GOVERNMENT In reference to the 2022 general elections, the 3rd...

their neighbours, the Kamba, Embu and Kikuyu. The Mbeere are of Bantu origin. Like the closely related Kikuyu, Embu, Meru and Kamba, they are concentrated...

of Kikuyu bereft of any tenancy land arrangement and thus propertyless at the time of independence. Before Kenya got its independence, Somali ethnic people...

2007 general election, the Taliban acted as a vigilante group against Kikuyu ethnic cleansing, in which 1,500 people were murdered, including 20 people...

as the 'Akamba.' They are closely related in language and culture to the Kikuyu, the Embu, the Mbeere and the Meru, and to some extent relate closely to...

numerous Kikuyu ethnic group which has dominated Kenyan politics since independence and Odinga an ethnic Luo allied with other smaller ethnic groups. Kibaki...

The Luo are the fourth-largest ethnic group (10.65%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (17.13%), the Luhya (14.35%) and the Kalenjin (13.37%). The Tanzanian Luo...

largest community in Kenya after the Kikuyu and, together with their brethren in Tanzania, form the largest single ethnic group in East Africa. This includes...

alleged that the elder Njoroge was born an ethnic Masai but changed his name from Segeni ole Mbuchucha to the Kikuyu name Njoroge. The elder Njoroge worked...