Kikuyu in a sentence

After the Young Kikuyu Association was banned by the government, it was replaced by the Kikuyu Central Association in 1924.

From the 1920s, the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) focused on unifying the Kikuyu into one geographic polity, but its project was undermined by controversies over ritual tribute, land allocation, the ban on female circumcision, and support for Thuku.

We need a statue of whoever bought kikuyu grass to Australia, so we can have an annual "throw rotten tomatoes at them" day, good squelchy fun for everyone.

This is despite its beginnings which saw the brutal British repression of the Mau Mau movement–a secret insurgency of Kikuyu tribesmen, which had risen up to, drive out the White settlers.

Another factor that Mr Ruto has to take into account is that since return of the multiparty system in 1992, the Kikuyu have never voted in any significant number for a presidential candidate from outside the community.

Kikuyu is the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting about 20 per cent of the country’s population.

Largely resisted by the elite of the dominant Kikuyu tribe elite, he ruthlessly dealt with his political opponents.

He said the Ministry had initiated water and Sanitation projects of over Sh10billion in Kiambu County, citing the Kikuyu and Limuru Water and Sewerage connections.

Jubilee was founded on a peace pact between two communities; the Kikuyu and the Kalenjin.

In Kenya, there are often violent clashes between the Kikuyu and the Luo.

Ten secondary school students from Kikuyu Sub County are set to represent Africa in the Global Lego League Competition in Texas, USA.

At the same time the Kikuyu, with Kenyatta's support, spread beyond their traditional territorial homelands and repossessed lands "stolen by the whites" – even when these had previously belonged to other groups.

Government politicians denounced the Kikuyu as traitors, obstructed their registration as voters, and threatened them with dispossession.

Harry Thuku said in 1952, "To-day we, the Kikuyu, stand ashamed and looked upon as hopeless people in the eyes of other races and before the Government.

He had used some of his preexisting qualifications; for example, Kikuyu was offered and accepted as the second modern language in which he was required to be proficient, even though no one there could test him on it.

He recommended a multi-racial government, land reform in the highlands, a wage hike for the Kikuyu, and many other reforms, most of which were eventually adopted.

He was initiated into the Kikuyu ethnic group, an event of which he never spoke, as he was sworn to secrecy.

Hostility between Kikuyu and Luo was heightened, and after riots broke out in Luo country KPU was banned.

However the Luo lost prominence due to the success of Kikuyu and related groups (Embu and Meru) in gaining and exercising political power during the Jomo Kenyatta era (1963–1978).

In 1993 and after, mass evictions of Kikuyu took place, often with the direct involvement of army, police, and game rangers.