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    Kikuyu Rituals

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    takers felt a theme of rebirth, now born a true Kikuyu who called themselves ‘circumcised’. This oath had special meaning to the kikuyu people with elements of precolonial oath-taking, and elements reminiscent of the Gikuyu second-birth and circumcision ceremonies. The Batuni (platoon) oath, or the muma was ngero (the oath for killing), varied more compared to the unity oath, but all the oath takers agree that it was stronger. The oath had a more taboo like rituals, with things like inserting penises into cut up goat meat. Still, they had the traditional parts of the first oath like taking off all their clothes, and wrapped in goat meat. Karigo Muchai, a forest fighter who wrote his part of the Mau Mau war in The Hardcore, he described taking the Batuni oath after being detained and beaten for two weeks for no reason. After this he wanted to join the cause and searched for to take the oath. Muchai was led to a dark room, and was ordered the removal of clothes while being hit a few times. Sitting on banana leaves with a longstrip of goats meat around his neck, Muchai was then ordered to place one end of the goat 's meat against his penis. Around Muchai and six others laid an upside…

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    Queen Nzinga Mbande, Queen Nzinga for short, was the powerful African ruler of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms, is now the country of Angola, during the 16th and 17th century. She was best recognized as the fearless leader that helped her people fought against the colonization of the Portuguese and bring freedom to her country, as well as free her people from slavery. Ngola Kiluanji Kia Samba, Nzinga’s father, was the ruler of the Ndongo people at the time Nzinga was born. Her brother, King…

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    Kikuyu Tribe Essay

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    Kikuyu tribe is the largest ethnic group in Kenya. Kikuyus make up 22 percent of Kenya’s population. The Kikuyu people speak Kikuyu language. They are neighbors to Embu, Meru and Mbeere tribes around Mount Kenya region. Kikuyus belong to the Bantu tribe that is believed to have migrated from West Africa together with other Bantus. The Kikuyus lastly settled around Mt. Kenya region. Culture and Lifestyle of Kikuyu Tribe Today, majority of Kikuyu people live in the Kenya's central region.…

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    Kabango a leader of the Kikuyu Tribe in The Story of Kikuyu Chief, states “We elders looked at each other. Was this the end of everything that we had known and worked for? What magic had this on of my father made that he who was not yet and Elder should be made leader over us all who were so much older and wiser in the ways of our people? It was as if a thunderbolt had fallen among us.” (St. Barbe Baker). Europeans went against the customs of Africans in the government. Only elders were allowed…

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    camps feel detachment from their village and families at home. 6. Certain details from Ngugi wa Thiong’os story, “The Return,” suggest why Kamau and other Kikuyu men did revolt against colonial rule. One detail that supports the reason why Kamau and other Kikuyu men did revolt is to maintain their tight family bonds. Families are commonly split up when the Security Forces involve, “whose deaf son [had] been kill[ed] by the Security Forces just before he himself was arrest[ed]”, helpless men…

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    Kenya Research Paper

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    African Association is establishing African rights and to recover appropriated Kikuyu land plus more. In 1925 the colonial government put an end to this first organization, but its members immediately regrouped as the Kikuyu Central Association and three years later the young Jomo Kenyatta becomes general secretary. In 1944 the legislative council in Nairobi becomes the first African colony to include an African member as yet just a single and lonely representative of the Africans. The number…

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    Meru Tribe Research Paper

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    noncomplex continent to a person looking at it from the outside, with no knowledge of what actually takes place within the countries. It would actually fascinate an observer if they learned of all that actually takes place in the small towns, cities and villages. Africa is a very divide and spread out continent and it goes deeper than the multiple cities and towns it goes back to the villages and tribes that founded the cities and towns that are now thriving. Africa has up to 3,000 tribes and…

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    influential men in the world. He is a well-known white archeologist from Africa. Louis Leakey did a lot of things for Africa historically. Also Leakey won an award from a museum and organized an important event. He is an interesting person to talk about from his accomplishments to his personal life. Without Louis Leakey’s impact how would have our history turned out? Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7th, 1903. He was raised in Kabete—small tribe in Kenya—nine miles from the city…

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    They built this railway as a means of quick communication between the coast and its Uganda and Sudan possessions. The railroad line was to get to the rich land lying inland from the coast to Uganda. It also served as a basis for import-export trade (Ochieng). At a young age, Jomo Kenyatta became the general secretary and editor of the KCA’s (Kikuyu Central Association) newspaper, Muigwithania (The Unifier). During the 1930s Kenyatta campaigns were energetically on a range of linked policies,…

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    1. Buganda Agreement of 1900 was a collaborative agreement between the British administration and the Buganda chief. The agreement consisted of the Buganda people paying taxes to the administrative heads residing in their lands, while the social status quo of the Buganda people stayed intact. Hierarchy of rule did not change. This all happened juxtapose to Harry Johnson establishing a system of land tenure 2. Githaka was the gathering of land owned Mbari. Mbari was a clan of elites and their…

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