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  • Thumbnail for Kikuyu people
    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...
    67 KB (8,274 words) - 15:01, 24 June 2024
  • was handed over to the Church of Scotland, it found believers among the Kikuyu people through the work of its stations at Kikuyu and Tumutumu (1908) and...
    8 KB (876 words) - 19:24, 7 January 2024
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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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    either to the Christian churches or to the Kikuyu Central Association, the largest association of the Kikuyu people. The Kikuyu regarded female genital...
    12 KB (1,319 words) - 17:06, 21 April 2024
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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...
    3 KB (329 words) - 19:10, 14 April 2024
  • Ngethe Njoroge (category Kikuyu people)
    was born to a Kikuyu family in Kenya. His parents, Leah Magana and George Segeni Njoroge, were pioneer Christians who attended the Church of the Torch...
    9 KB (798 words) - 19:24, 14 May 2024
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    minister of the Church of Scotland in 1915 and was married in 1921. Arthur was appointed to the post of medical missionary at the Kikuyu Mission, British...
    17 KB (2,332 words) - 20:48, 2 July 2024
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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...
    152 KB (20,631 words) - 11:15, 9 July 2024
  • 1904 English–Kikuyu Vocabulary, whose author, CMS member A. W. McGregor, complained of the difficulty in obtaining information about Kikuyu from "very unwilling...
    45 KB (4,722 words) - 17:39, 2 June 2024
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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,...
    77 KB (8,865 words) - 15:36, 24 June 2024
  • sect incorporates some aspects of Christianity with those of traditional Kikuyu religious beliefs. The sect was officially registered in 1959. However,...
    6 KB (788 words) - 10:48, 16 January 2024
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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...
    206 KB (19,912 words) - 06:26, 8 July 2024
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    first wife Grace Wahu, according to Kikuyu tradition. When it became apparent that Grace was pregnant, his church elders ordered him to get married before...
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    Harry Leakey was assigned to an established post of the Church Mission Society among the Kikuyu at Kabete, in the highlands north of Nairobi. The station...
    47 KB (6,219 words) - 20:14, 2 July 2024
  • Kikuyu of Kenya". African Studies Review. 25 (2/3): 195–207. doi:10.2307/524217. JSTOR 524217. Sandgren, David P. (1989). Christianity and the Kikuyu:...
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  • the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s. A number of Kikuyu loyalists who rejected Mau Mau were active church members. When President Daniel arap Moi moved to...
    22 KB (2,117 words) - 12:00, 27 May 2024
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    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...
    79 KB (9,860 words) - 18:34, 4 July 2024
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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...
    135 KB (16,468 words) - 00:32, 1 July 2024
  • with the murder of over 50 unarmed Kikuyu women and children, some as young as a month old, by locking them in a church and burning them alive in Kiambaa...
    113 KB (12,071 words) - 17:39, 26 June 2024
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    then promoted him to vice-president in 1967. Despite opposition from a Kikuyu elite known as the Kiambu Mafia, Kenyatta retained Moi as his Vice President...
    54 KB (5,087 words) - 20:21, 25 June 2024
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