Word: kikuyus
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...whites is their failure to understand that the black Kikuyu tribesmen, who tend their crops, wash their dishes, nurse their babies and dig their graves when they die, are also equally fanatic land-lovers. The whites blandly reason: "If we're kind to the Kukes [short for Kikuyus], what more can they want? They've only been down from the trees for 50 years ..." One helpful farmer lined up his Kukes and told them to speak to me freely. The farmer is a good bwana, they said, but that isn't the point. The land was always...
...means "dancer," Koinange Wa Mbiyu, chief of 800,000 Kikuyu tribesmen in British East Africa's Kenya Colony, was a good dancer in his youth but he never learned to read & write. Last week Mbiyu Wa Koinange, who will soon succeed his aged father as chief of the Kikuyus, got his A. B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio...