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The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya, making them Kenya's largest ethnic group. [1] Part of a series on the.
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 in the area between Nyeri, Nairobi and Nakuru. The Kikuyu people usually identify their lands by the surrounding mountain ranges in Central Kenya, including Mount Kenya, which ...
Kikuyu. Waithira, is a 2017 Kenyan -South African biographical documentary film directed by Eva Njoki Munyiri and co-produced by director himself with Stefan Gieren and Jean Meeran for Team Tarbaby. [4] The film deals with director Eva Njoki Munyiri's history and its intersections with forgotten Kenyan history, pop culture and the diaspora. [3]
v. t. e. Ngai (also called 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, and the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania. [1] Ngai is the creator of the universe and all in it. Regarded as the omnipotent God, [2] the Kikuyu, Embu, Meru, Kamba and ...
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%). [3] The Tanzanian Luo population was estimated at 1.1 million in 2001 and 3.4 million in 2020. [2] They are part of a larger group of related Luo peoples who inhabit an area ranging from South Sudan ...
A Jewish cemetery was consecrated in 1907, and the first synagogue in 1913. [4] During the period of World War II and following the Holocaust, Jewish immigration increased and as many as 1,200 Jews were living in the country. [4] Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, members of the Kenyan Jewish community helped Irgun and Lehi ...
Some of the prominent Bantu groups in Kenya include the Kikuyu, the Kamba, the Luhya, the Kisii, the Meru, and the Mijikenda. In Kenya's last colonial census of 1962, population groups residing in the territory included European, African and Asian individuals. [7]
Harry Thuku (1895 – 14 June 1970) was a Kenyan born in Kiambu, Mitahato village. As a politician, he was one of the pioneers in the development of modern African nationalism in Kenya. He helped found the Young Kikuyu Association and the East African Association before being arrested and exiled from 1922 to 1931.