History of the Kikuyu

Mrs. Nardi's 9th Grade World History Class
Lenox Memorial High School, Lenox, Massachusetts

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Geography

Early Kikuyu

Socio-Religious Traditions

History

Mau Mau

Post-Colonial

Syllabus

Assignments

Activities

Vocabulary

Links

Contact Info

Works Cited

Study Guide: Africa Unit Test

Early Kikuyu

Settlement
Trade

Socio-Religious Traditions
Mbari
Mariika
• Ritual
• Last one
• Meaning

Ciama
Muthamati
Land Allocation
Predatory Lineage system

History
The term “race”
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
Berlin conference
Pax Britannica
Cege wa Kibiro
IBEAC
Waiyaki wa Hinga
Lunatic Express
Frederick Lugard
Sir George Eliot
British East Africa Protectorate
John T. McCutcheon
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Indirect rule
Missionary Role in Kenya
Simba
Noblesse Oblige/ White Man’s Burden

Origins of Mau Mau
Waiyaki wa Hinga
Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, Mau Mau Daughter
Ahoi
Squatters
Olenguruone
RNLO 1918
Crown Land Ordinance of 1926
Githaka
White Highlands
Hut Tax, Kafagio
Oathing, Oath of Unity, Batuni oath

Kenya Land and Freedom Army
KCA, KAU
Bwana
Chief Waruhiu
General China
Dedan Kimathi

British Response
Governor Evelyn Baring
Declaration of the State of Emergency
Operation Jock Scott
Arrest of Jomo Kenyatta
Rule of Law
Kapenguria trial
Operation Anvil
Pipeline
Dilution technique
Gulag

Villagization
Central Province

Post –Colonial Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
KANU
Million –acre scheme
Tom Mboya
Oginga Odinga

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize, Green Belt Movement
Kennedy Airlift, father of Barak Obama
Nyeri Peace Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Introduction to Africa

• Genre based
• Geography
• “Tribe”
• Terracotta sculptures
• Old Djenne
• Ethiopia and Liberia
• Ghana
• Kenyan-born Magdalene Odungo
• Scarification
• Regalia
• Diviners
• Ci Wara
• Ivory, Metal, Beads
• Figure #34, Stool
• Figure #1, Terracotta