TAKE a piece of ancient land sparsely inhabited by pastoral and nomadic tribes, mix into it a variety of white men of various intent, let it simmer for fifty years, and serve it hot in 1953. The ...
In the forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their ...
In Kenya, 'Kikuyus and Luos do not read from the same page' They grew up in farming villages — Teddy Chwanya in the rolling hills of western Kenya and Samuel Mathu amid the cattle and flower farms of ...
Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethnic rivalries are a reality of life in Kenya, where President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election has triggered days of riots and ethnic killings, in which opposition supporters ...
One of the most authoritative accounts of the Mau Mau revolt was written around Independence by anthropologist Donald Barnett and Karari Njama, who was chief secretary of the movement’s parliament. In ...
Kenyans will go to the polls on Tuesday to select a new president. In a nation with a history of contested and violent elections, this is the first time a member of the politically dominant Kikuyu ...
Aug 25 (Reuters) - Kenya has kicked off a population census that includes asking respondents their ethnic group, a thorny issue in an east African nation that was polarised by post-election tribal ...
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