Download or read book With a Prehistoric People written by W. S. Routledge and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the method of life and mode of thought amongst a nation on its first contact with European civilization.
Download or read book Kikuyu People written by E. N. Mugo and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With a Prehistoric People the Akikuyu of British East Africa written by William Scoresby Routledge and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Kikuyu 1500 1900 written by Godfrey Muriuki and published by Nairobi : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facing Mount Kenya written by Jomo Kenyatta and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1978-12-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost utopian picture of their social norms and the sophisticated codes by which all aspects of the society were governed. This book is one of a kind, capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing. It is therefore a must-read for all who want to learn about African culture.
Download or read book Mau Mau and the Kikuyu written by Louis Leakey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization. This discussion illustrates why and how the Mau Mau came into being and how the situation could be improved so that peace could once again come to Kenya.
Download or read book Facing Mount Kenya written by Kenyatta, Jomo and published by East African Educational Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans. It is unique in anthropological literature for it gives an account of the social institutions and religious rites of an African people, permeated by the emotions that give to customs and observances their meaning. It is characterised by both insight and a tinge of romanticism. The author, proud of his African blood and ways of thought, takes the reader through a thorough and clear picture of Gikuyu life and customs, painting an almost utopian picture of their social norms and the sophisticated codes by which all aspects of the society were governed. This book is one of a kind, capturing and documenting traditions fast disappearing. It is therefore a must-read for all who want to learn about African culture.
Download or read book Bantu Beliefs and Magic written by Charles William Hobley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bantu Beliefs and Magic written by C. W. Hobley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bantu Beliefs and Magic" by C. W. Hobley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book A Prehistoric People the CENTRAL KIKUYU Before 1970 written by Samuel Maina and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE The central Gĩkũyũ occupy Mũrang''a County, which is in the central part of Kenya. At various times in history, the central gikuyu territory has been known as Ithanga, Mũkũrwe-inĩ, Gĩkuyu, Kĩrĩnyaga, Metumi, Fort Hall and finally Mũrang''a. They are the original Gĩkũyũ and direct descendants of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi. The country of the central Gĩkũyũ,'' whose system of tribal organisation will be described in this book, lies between the southern Gĩkũyũ of Kiambu (Kabete) and the northern Gĩkũyũ of nyĩrĩ (Gaki) all three lying in the central part of Kenya. Murang''a is divided into six administrative sub-counties: Kandara, Gatanga, Kĩharũ, kangĩma, Kĩgumo and Maragwa. The population, according to the 2019 census is (1,056,640) one million, fifty-six hundred, six hundred and forty. The central Gĩkũyũ people are agriculturists, today keeping a few flocks of sheep and goats and cattle. They are also ardent businessmen. The cultural and historical traditions of the central Gĩkũyũ people have been verbally handed down from generation to generation. These traditions are quite distinct from the other two of the north and south. In writing this book, I sought to bring out this distinction to establish the difference with the southern Gĩkũyũ as was aptly captured by Louis Leakey in his treatise titled "southern kikuyu before 1903". Probably the only and most comprehensive book on Gĩkũyũ culture, Leakey candidly dwelt on the southern Kikuyu and confesses to not having had much contact with what he wrongly summed up as northern kikuyu. In that said north, there exists two distinct kikuyu cultural groupings that have never been studied to establish this glaring distinction between the nyĩrĩ and mũrang''a groupings. From inception, the central Gĩkũyũ carried forth their information and history through memory. In the book "a prehistoric people: the central Gĩkũyũ before 1970", effort was made to collect relevant information from sometimes very meagre sources to try to correct the misconception that the kikuyu are a homogenous people practicing a common culture. As a central Gĩkũyũ myself, having been born and grown up there, it is clear after interaction with the other two, that the original Gĩkũyũ still exists in mũrang''a (fig 15) as close to as it was during Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi era. It is from these original Gĩkũyũ that the other two, the southern and northern, developed after dispersal from Mũrang''a. Thaaaai-to the members of the central Gĩkũyũ kĩama, mwaki wa rũgongo rũa kĩranga, in which I stand as mũthuri wa mbũri igĩrĩ, my comrades-in-arms of the past, present, and future. In this work as in all my other activities, their co-operation, courage, and sacrifice in the service of the central Gĩkũyũ people have been the inspiration and the sustaining power. Finally., I extend my warmest thanks to all those elders and scholars as well as people of all walks of life who gave me much of their time to help collect, critic and record the facts correctly. Again, thank you very much. Samuel Mwitũria Maina PhD Nairobi, 2021
Download or read book The Origin of the Kikuyu People Their Role in the Birth of the Kenyan Nation written by Charles Wanguhu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Kikuyu Curtain written by Helen Virginia Blakeslee and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My People of Kikuyu written by Jomo Kenyatta and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirit That Haunts written by Joseph Ndungu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rituals are passed through generation to generation and when in my generation, in the lineage of the ancestral spirits demanded that our service was required, we were not spared, Mau Mau had to resurrect as Mungiki, a seed to fullfil Mugo wa Kibiru Prophecy and as actual players that planted seeds of discord that ignited tribal clashes in Kenya. The Kikuyu seer prophesied about dominance by the white man rule in Kikuyu land-not Kenya. Kenya colony was a British creation it never existed in the mind concept of this Kikuyu seer, neither did it exist among the kikuyus. Kikuyu tribe had their own way of governance and Mugo Kibiru saw a dominance that led to a struggle that created a Kikuyu "caliphate"- an ethnic spiritual Kingdom. The ruler that was to come was to be anointed by the Kikuyu tradition rituals. The Mau Mau Kikuyu tradition rituals that Kenyatta rode on to became the first President of Kenya. Kikuyus perception of a "Muthamaki", King was and is considered spiritual and to an extent even today among many. Though Kenyatta was voted as the president of Kenya, he was a tribal" caliph" of an ethnic-Kingdom. He outwitted his peers and rode on tribal kinsmen ignorance who didn't understand a struggle beyond their land, Dedan Kimathi having been educated understood this fact, retraced his steps and was on the way to surrender before he was captured, he had fully realized that his Kikuyu Militia Mau Mau had no hope of having an Independent ethnic caliphate outside the bigger Kenya. The struggle of the Kikuyu tribe for their land and freedom, "ithaka na wiyathi" recapture of political power from the British and freedom restored with a Kikuyu "Muthamaki" King, was prophesied by Mugo Kibiru and it came to pass with Jomo Kenyatta inaugurated as the first President of Kenya on 12th December 1963.Mugo Kibiru had also prophesied the political power shifting base and taken by another tribe. In 1978 after Jomo Kenyatta death, the Kalenjin tribe took political power through the 2nd President of the Republic of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi. The seer had also seen tribal clashes that was to follow for the mantle of political leadership to be handed back to the Kikuyu tribe again, strangely as it seems Mugo Kibiru having lived in the 18th and early 19th century, his prophesy unfolded as told, Mungiki youths, unconsciously or consciously fulfilling these prophecies through political machinations of lies, deceit and propaganda. Who were these Players? WHO IGNITED THESE CLASHES? DID THE KALENJIN PLAN THE TRIBAL CLASHES TO EVICT KIKUYUS IN 1992?. Kenya was created by the British, tribes existed as Kingdoms and ethnic nations that had their own system of governance, they had borders and conflicts. When the struggle for independence started, it was not a struggle of a nation called Kenya, No! but tribal nations, kingdoms-ethnic "caliphates". Mau Mau was born along these lines and Mugo Kibiru prophecy was on this line of an ethnic Kikuyu Kingdom, a belief among many Kikuyus. What many fail to see in Mugo Kibiru prophecy, is that he also spoke of an ethnic-kingdom in reference to "Uthamaki ndukoima ringi Nyumba ya Mumbi" this mantle of leadership likened to a monarchy in the house of Mumbi will never again depart from Mumbi house and strangely enough the son of the first President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta took presidency from another Kikuyu Mwai kibaki. Kikuyus considers themselves to be from one house, one family." Nyumba ya Mumbi'. ARE KIKUYUS TIED TO THIS BOND OF ETHNIC ENSLAVEMENT? Maina Njenga in the lineage of Kikuyu tribal spirit ignited tribal clashes to awaken a clarion call of an ethnic kingdom, as was witnessed in 1992 and 2007. Uhuru kenyatta from "Ambui" clan son of a Kikuyu seer continues to fulfill Mugo Kibiru prophesy, as Jomo rode in Mau Mau choas, Uhuru rode on Mungiki chaos and a tribal support of the spirit that haunts, he became the president firmly rooted and shrouded in mystery of 1966 "Chai wa Kenyatta".
Download or read book Imperial Reckoning written by Caroline Elkins and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth- century history with chilling parallels to America's own imperial project. Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Download or read book Child of Two Worlds written by R. Mugo Gatheru and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of one of the Kikuyu people who left his home on the Kikuyu Reserve in Kenya when he was a teenager to seek an education in the white man's world. He describes the life of his people--their religion, their marriage customs and domestic problems, their burial habits, how "sorcerers" are dealt with, the Kikuyu oaths (from which the famous Mau Mau oaths were adapted), the rituals of the second birth and of circumcision, and the importance of the Kikuyu age-groups.
Download or read book Kikuyu written by H. E. Lambert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, the main emphasis of the book is on the complex age-set organization which constitutes the framework within which the life of every Kikuyu is regulated from infancy to old age. The book shows how the political and territorial organization, the judicial system and the administration of justice, the training of leaders, the structure and the control of social life are all integrated into the age-set system.
