
	Where results make sense

Topic: Kikuyu Central Association

Related Topics

Kikuyu

Jomo Kenyatta

British Government

British East Africa

Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Braemar

Music of Kenya

Evening Standard

Geology of the Yosemite area

Anschluss

Varicap

John Cage

Naomi Wolf

Mayan civilization

Popular music

In the News (Thu 10 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Kĩkũyũ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is also a town in Kiambu district called Kikuyu, and a species of Pennisetum grass native to the Kenyan highlands named kikuyu.
		'Kikuyu' is the anglicised form of the proper name and pronunciation of Gĩkũyũ.
		Arguably suffering the most under imperial rule, the Gĩkũyũ was the most active ethnic group during the fight for Kenyan independence, with most of the Mau-Mau being drawn from their number.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kikuyu (538 words)

	Kikuyu colonial history - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		The Kikuyu and the neighbouring Kamba, of course, simply opposed what appeared to them to be an unwarranted invasion of their territory, and in 1896 and 1897 small military expeditions were sent against them by the new administration.
		In his absence, the KCA grew to become the voice of an emerging Kikuyu consciousness, leading a wave of resistance to the forced sale of livestock to the government in the late 1930s, until it was officially banned in 1940.
		At first, the KAU drew its support from the Kikuyu elite, but quickly began gathering support from the Kikuyu masses, believing that it was possible to consolidate their support through the administration of a oath (see the section on the Mau Mau).
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/kikuyu/history2.htm (2772 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Kikuyu in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kikuyu have two of the factors that increase the chances of future protest: significant political and cultural restrictions and recent repression by state authorities.
		During the reign of President Moi, the Kikuyu, while being economically advantaged, have suffered the most in comparison to other groups in terms of political and cultural restrictions and being the victims of ethnic violence.
		In particular, the Kikuyu were the primary beneficiaries of the Africanization of the White Highlands.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=50103 (1627 words)

	Kenya - MSN Encarta
		The Kikuyu Central Association (KCA), formed in 1924, began advocating the return of land lost to European settlement, the importance of Kikuyu cultural values, and improvement in the lot of its middle-class leadership.
		One of the leaders of the KCA was Jomo Kenyatta.
		Kenyatta’s arrest and later conviction and imprisonment, and the banning of KAU in 1953, spurred on the Mau Mau rebellion, in which thousands of Africans—the majority of whom were Kikuyu—fought a guerrilla war against colonial rule and settler supremacy.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564507_10/Kenya.html#howtocite (1430 words)

	Emergency In Kenya: Kikuyu And The Mau Mau Insurrection
		When the Kikuyu attempted to move back onto their land in later years, the first major conflict between fls and whites occurred, and continued as an issue of contention and distrust for decades thereafter.32 During the first decade of the 20th Century, the mass immigration of European settlers was vertually unchallenged by the African people.
		Consequently, the KCA was accused of collaboration with the Italians.
		The Kikuyu Reserve, which was the closest of the native reserves to Nairobi, was increasingly pressed by both the post-war immigration growth and their own "natural" population increase.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/HRD.htm (14500 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kikuyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the 1950s, under the leadership of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kikuyu fought the British colonialists in what was known as the Mau Mau Emergency.
		Although the Kikuyu traditionally lived in separate family homesteads, most were moved into villages during the rebellion.
		The politicization of the ban on female circumcision and the rise of the independent school movement in Kenya: the KCA, the missions and government, 1929-1932.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kikuyu.asp (303 words)

	Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: History: The African nationalism
		Maasais and Kikuyus were the most affected, for they were the tribes that had traditionally inhabited the region were Nairobi was founded.
		Kikuyus hid in the forests, away from the whites' hunting grounds, and organised societies which were ignored by the colonial rulers.
		The Kikuyus revolted outside the police station were Thuku was confined, in front of Norfolk Hotel, and both police and settlers replied with violence.
	www.kenyalogy.com /eng/info/histo12.html (1335 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Kikuyu in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kikuyu and Kisii remain displaced from the 1991-94 ethnic violence in the Rift Valley.
		Their counterparts at the Kikuyu campus blocked the Nairobi- Kikuyu road and commandeered a Stage Coach bus as students at the Lower Kabete campus blocked the Lower Kabete Road and lit a bonfire in the middle of the road.
		The Kikuyus operating under the Original Mau Mau Association are suing Idi Amin jointly with the British Government and are demanding three billion pounds in compensation on behalf of 90,000 Kikuyus who were imprisoned and tortured during the Mau Mau war.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=50103 (9656 words)

	Kenya - Fight For Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His party, the East African Association, traced its roots to the early Kikuyu political groups and was supported by several influential and militant Asians.
		He quickly became the first propaganda secretary of the East African Association, and later the secretary-general of the Kikuyu Central Association.
		Early in 1952, the Kenya Citizens Association was formed in an effort to promote change based on persuasion and compromise rather than confrontation and violence.
	www.jambokenya.com /jambo/kenya/govt02.htm (529 words)

	MCC - Resources & Publications - Occasional Papers - Exploring the Wisdom of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kikuyu elders serve as the custodians of ancestral land and, by extension, as keepers of social cohesion within the community.
		Not having embraced in any ceremonial manner the role of Kikuyu elder, except as husband, father of children and participant in the immediate extended family, he noted that some 60 percent of the Kenyan population comprises young people, many of whom are not systematically exposed to positive human and social values.
		He was exposed to all the prescribed Kikuyu rites of passage as a child, as a young man, as a married man and finally as a man with married children who had, in turn, passed through the prescribed rites as determined by the Kikuyu tradition.
	www.mcc.org /respub/occasional/26oracle.html (8050 words)

	kenya-mail.com's Kenya Safari Guide - Mau Mau - The Mau Mau movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The “dangerous explosion” among the Kikuyu that he had predicted in 1930 erupted as the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952, which was directed against the presence of European settlers in Kenya and their ownership of land.
		Among the Kikuyu, who supplied a considerable proportion of the labour force on the European farms and whose proximity to Nairobi brought many of them into regular contact with Europeans, organizations to represent the tribe's grievances began to spring up quickly in the 1920s and 1930s.
		The rising was limited to the Kikuyu tribe and was directed against the presence of Europeans in Kenya and their ownership of land.
	www.kenya-mail.com /mau_mau.html (2177 words)

	Jomo Kenyatta - MSN Encarta
		Kenyatta was educated by Presbyterian missionaries and by 1921 had moved to the city of Nairobi.
		In 1929 and 1931 Kenyatta visited England to present KCA demands for the return of African land lost to European settlers and for increased political and economic opportunity for Africans in Kenya, which had become a colony within British East Africa in 1920.
		The 1969 assassination of cabinet minister Tom Mboya—a Luo ally of Kenyatta’s—by a Kikuyu led to months of tension and violence between the Luo and the Kikuyu.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761552618 (1106 words)

	Jomo Kenyatta
		He entered politics in 1924 when he joined the Kikuyu Central Association[?].
		In 1928 he worked for Kikuyu land problems before the Hilton Young Commission in Nairobi.
		1929 KCA sent Kenyatta to London to lobby for their views for the Kikuyu tribal land affairs.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Jomo_Kenyatta.html (740 words)

	Mau Mau
		These newly literate Kikuyu would prove to be instrumental in the protests of the English in regard to the ’stolen lands.’ No longer was what the settlers said a mystery and no longer were the Kikuyu unable to clearly profess their opinions on such subjects.
		The KCA was an offshoot of a previous organization, the Young Kikuyu Association which was headed by Harry Thuku.
		Kenyatta was sent on behalf of the KCA to speak in the Carter Administration on the subject of the Kikuyu’s stolen lands (Majdalaney 49).
	homepage.mac.com /zagaya/short_stories/html/maumau.html (3244 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kikuyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kikuyu KIKUYU [Kikuyu], Bantu-speaking people, numbering about 6 million, forming the largest tribal group in Kenya.
		In 1952 the Mau Mau began reprisals against the Europeans, especially in the white highlands, claimed as Kikuyu lands.
		A Kikuyu, he was one of the earliest and best-known African nationalist leaders.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articlesnew/06957.html (654 words)

	East Africa Living Encyclopedia
		This association soon formed branches in many parts of the country to protest the allocation of most of the colony's fertile land to Europeans.
		In 1928, the Young Kikuyu Association was reorganized under the name of the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA); Johnstone Kamau Ngengi (Jomo Kenyatta) was elected General Secretary.
		During the 1930s the KCA became the voice of an emerging Kikuyu consciousness until it was officially banned in 1940.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/khistory.htm (2828 words)

	AfricanTribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The East African Association was founded in 1921 by Harry Thuku, Jessie Kariuki, Joseph Kangethe, Abdulla Tairara, Norman Mboya and a Ugandan by the name Ssetongo.
		KCA was headed by James Beauttah and Joseph Kangethe.
		As the name suggests, KCA was primarily a political party fronting the demands of the Kikuyu community in Central Kenya.
	kenya740.tripod.com /kanu.html (1095 words)

	History of KENYA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They are not Kenya's largest tribe (a distinction going to the Kikuyu, who live by agriculture), but the fierce reputation of the Masai warriors, engaging in frequent raids against their neighbours, gives them a power beyond their numbers.
		In many areas Africans are now formally dispossessed of their land and are confined in reservations (the Kikuyu, the largest tribe, being the main losers), while the 'white highlands' policy restricts the ownership of the best farming land to Europeans.
		The terrorists are Kikuyu, and their ritual oaths of loyalty to their secret organization reflect the customs of Jomo Kenyatta's political group, the Kikuyu Central Association.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad21 (2158 words)

	Europeans in Africa and Asia
		An association of Kikuyu farmers, the Kikuyu Association, was founded in 1920, which wished to block further losses of lands and sought reforms rather than the overthrow of British rule.
		The missionaries had been attacking the custom, and the Kikuyu responded with the claim that it was an essential part of their culture.
		The leading Kikuyu nationalist association, the Kikuyu Central Association, rallied the Kikuyu, leading many Kikuyu to break away from the Christian churches and mission schools.
	www.fsmitha.com /h2/ch14.htm (7292 words)

	Harry Thuku Biography / Biography of Harry Thuku Biography
		One of the first, the Kikuyu Association, was a nonmilitant group with ties to the government and missions; its main concern was the preservation of African-owned land.
		He was interested, however, in more forceful action to deal with other problems facing Kenya's Africans, and in 1921 he left the Kikuyu Association when it did not respond as he wished to new European pressures.
		He was released in 1931; in 1932 he became president of the Kikuyu Central Association, then Kenya's foremost African political group.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-harry-thuku/index.html (546 words)

	Information for Social Change Journal (ISC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Association opposed the land alienation as well as forced labour, tax increases, and the proposed wage cuts.
		Thuku protested against the proposed reduction in African wages, land alienation, compulsory labour recruitment, increases in hut and poll taxes, and kipande (2) laws which were introduced for "controlling movements of African labourers and for locating and identifying them" (Makhan Singh, 1969).
		This was the case, for instance, when Harry Thuku formed the Young Kikuyu Association in 1921.
	libr.org /isc/articles/15-Durrani.html (1500 words)

	Kenya History - 1900s
		As a focal point of nationalism in Kenya, KANU is consistently associated with the history of anti-colonialism, the struggle for independence and devotion to the building of a united, peaceful and prosperous nation, in which every Kenyan enjoys political freedom, social justice and equal opportunities.
		In outlining the evolution of KANU as a political party, it must be appreciated several formal and informal political organizations preceded it in serving as an expression of the same spirit the KANU stood for on its formation in 1960.
		The formation of district-based political organizations was allowed, except in Central Province where the main activities of the Mau Mau anti-colonial movement were concentrated.
	www.statehousekenya.go.ke /hist/1900.htm (1698 words)

	Profile - Kenya
		Bisected from north to south by the Eastern Rift Valley, the Kenya highlands are divided into the Mau Escarpment on the east side of the Eastern Rift Valley and the Aberdare Range on the west side.
		Thus, the majority of Kikuyu live in south central Kenya, the majority of Luhya in western Kenya, the majority of Luo in southwestern Kenya, the majority of Kamba in east central Kenya, and the majority of Kalenjin in west central Kenya.
		Many of the Kikuyu who lost land were forced to move onto European farms and estates as squatters and laborers, or to seek employment in urban areas such as Nairobi.
	www.inadev.org /profile_-_kenya.htm (7566 words)

	Jomo Kenyatta: Kenya’ Founding Father
		Njoroge (nyo-ro-ge): central character he is the child of Nykabi and Ngotho.
		The grandson of a medicine man of the Kikuyu, Kenya’s dominant tribe, Kenyatta was unsure of the date and year of his birth, probably 1891.
		When the British rejected these demands, Kikuyu militants organized a terrorist underground, the Mau Mau, which prompted the declaration of a state of emergency, Kenyatta was accused of masterminding the Mau Mau, a charge almost certainly false; unquestionably, however, the KAU had links to the Mau Mau, and in 1952 Kenyatta was imprisioned.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~emaiersh/wncjomo.htm (691 words)

	The 2002 Kenya Elections
		In 1927, two years after the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) was formed, its secretary, Josphat Kamau, surrendered the association's documents and operational secrets to the CID, including Ksh1,600 in cash.
		The KCA sent Kenyatta to London for a brief stint in 1929 to present Kikuyu grievances to the Hilton Young Commission, which was hearing views on a proposed East African Federation.
		Although the KCA founder Joseph Kang'ethe would have been the natural choice for an envoy, he was not proficient in the English language, while another member, James Beuttah, had pressing family commitments in Uganda, where he had been posted.
	www.nationaudio.com /elections/moisuccession/Succession_JKenyatta7.html (1643 words)

	Travel in Nairobi - Kenya - Africa - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		Indeed, the whole tone of KAU was seen as altogether too moderate by the older association, the Kikuyu Central Association (KCA).
		Thus in 1946 the KCA recalled the one man capable and qualified to reinvest the older association with its previous prestige and the only common link between the two groups Jomo Kenyatta.
		Initially a characteristic of traditional Kikuyu life, the oaths of loyalty and unity became a means of mass political mobilisation.
	www.africatravelling.net /kenya/nairobi/nairobi_history.htm (1866 words)

	Kenya Times Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1960 when Africans were yet again allowed to form political associations they a replication of the banned ones - ethnic and regional.
		KANU which lost power after 47 years at the helm was then viewed as a party of two major ethnic communities - the Luo and Kikuyu while KADU with exception of the Luhyia was basically viewed as a party of small ethnic groups.
		At the time both DP and Ford Asili drew their bedrock support from Kikuyu ethnic community, while both Ford-Asili and Ford Kenya received a sizeable chunk of their votes from Luo, Luhya and pockets of other communities.
	www.timesnews.co.ke /17apr06/nwsstory/opinion2.html (1353 words)

	Fight For Freedom
		Jomo Kenyatta, a former water meter inspector with the Nairobi Municipal Council, filled the leadership vacuum after Thuku.
		The findings of the Commission only served to widen the gulf between Africans and Europeans, however, for it marked out permanent barriers between the white-owned farms and the African Land Units or "reserves." These boundaries became law five years later.
		From this movement the Kikuyu dominated Mau Mau organization had been formed.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/kenya/fight.htm (529 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)