The Central Kikuyu

Loss of cultural identity is the most contemporary tragedies of the postcolonial and digital era of Africa ethnicity. Culture shapes a people’s identity and influences their behaviors, while affording them due identity and influences their behaviors, while affording them due recognition.

This remarkable book is a concise record of the ways of living of the Central Kikuyu (Murang’a) from inception at Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga, to the period before the invasion by the colonialist and up to shortly after self-rule. While Kikuyu culture includes the whole Kikuyu tribe, the genesis of the southern and norther genres of their culture is distinctly different from the original.