No other tribe gets as much flak as them [Photo: Courtesy] A lot has been said about Kikuyu women. In fact, of the women from the 42 ethnic communities, no other tribe gets as much flak as them. They ...
The Nairobian did not carry out a random survey, but you can be sure there were fewer Kikuyu men who trooped to Uhuru Park for the recent ‘swearing in’ of Nasa luminary Raila Odinga, a Luo. The Luos ...
A band of Kikuyu women, naked except for thongs of leather tied round their shaven heads, recently stole out from a bamboo thicket on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Armed with shiny ...
When Caroline Elkins ’91 started working on her Harvard doctoral dissertation on the Mau Mau rebellion, the long and violent uprising by Kenya’s largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, against British ...
A new season has come to Kenya Crown Colony, bringing all its beauties and a change in the weather. But the climate has not changed—the climate of hatred and fear, of murder and vengeance. Cabled TIME ...
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