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Kikuyu
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Ki·ku·yu  (k-ky) also Gi·ku·yu (g-ky)
n. pl. Kikuyu or Ki·ku·yus also Gikuyu or Gi·ku·yus
1. A member of a people of central and southern Kenya.
2. The Bantu language of the Kikuyu.
Kikuyu [kɪˈkuːjuː]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -yus, -yu a member of a Negroid people of E Africa, living chiefly in Kenya on the high foothills around Mount Kenya
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
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During the post-election chaos, at least 1,500 people were killed nationwide, and the Kalenjins attacked Kikuyus whom they consider to have settled their ancestral lands.
Kenya's Kalenjin tribe still on war footing by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Its tactics against white settlers drew a heavy-handed response from colonial administrators who rounded up and allegedly brutalised thousands of young Kikuyus.
Kenya independence fighters to sue Britain by AFP / AFP European Edition
In Burnt Forest, a Rift Valley town where some of the worst attacks on Kikuyus took place and thousands are staying at a camp under guard, a march by ODM supporters from the Kalenjin tribe, escorted by paramilitary officers, paralysed the highway.
Kenya 'killing field of innocents' by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
 
 
 
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