Godfrey Muriuki is Kenya’s foremost historian on the community. In A History of the Kikuyu 1500-1900, his magnum opus effort of 1975, Muriuki contends that the Kikuyu trekked down the shores ...

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 have been accused of all manner of things; they not ...

A central feature of this revolt was a desire on the part of the Kikuyu, along with some Embu and Meru people, for land taken by the Europeans. The Mau Mau uprising also marked a turning point in ...