A dramatic scene unfolded during the burial of Josephine Wairimu, wife of Kikuyu artist and content creator Banema, on Friday, July 11. Read more.

Among the Gikuyu, the mumwo ni iri (those men who have not left anything behind) suffered the indignity of having ash inserted in the anus upon death by age mates before being interred in a not-so ...

What is Ngemi Homecoming "Ngemi is a Gikuyu word for ululation. But in Gikuyu, ululation has a meaning. Ngemis were said every time a child was born. How the father or men in the family would know ...

In March, 2016, he received an appointment letter from Samuel Kamitha, Chief Messenger, Voice, and Custodian of the Gikuyu Nation, who was trained from the College of Seers, an ancient tribal ...

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o Says Prison Formed Him As A Writer Ngũgĩ wrote Devil on the Cross while he was in prison. In 1977, he co-wrote a play in Gikuyu and produced it in a local theater in Kenya.

The stakes were high. If Ngũgĩ slipped into his native Gikuyu, the language of his village, he was beaten with a cane and forced to wear a sign with messages such as “idiot” or “donkey.” ...

He was 12 when it happened, when Ngugi wa Thiong'o witnessed the beating. Teachers at his British colonial school in the "white highlands" of Kenya caught one of his school chums speaking Gikuyu ...