The Gĩkũyũ Silence and Stillness That Passeth All Understanding.
The Gĩkũyũ homestead nestled in the high slopes of the Nyandarwa and Mt. Kenya forests had a serene and magical air. Here is how Elspeth Huxley described a scene near Karatina, Nyeri in 1937. “Here and...
View ArticleNdũma: The Superfood Fighting an Existential Crises
Nyeri and Mũranga are on the slopes of Mt. Kenya and from the air the topography looks like corrugated iron sheets. The erosion from the mountain slopes form ridges and valleys making the topography...
View ArticleHow to Become a Mũũgĩkũyũ
When a child is born of a Mũũgĩkũyũ woman it will become a member of its father’s clan. But not just yet. The clan, Mũhĩrĩga, is the primary organisational unit of the Aagĩkũyũ of Central Kenya. If...
View ArticleA Call to Arms
As we move on we need to pause and see what lies beyond the horizon. A paragraph which Gĩkũyũ primer readers were taught to memorise is worth remembering. Mũthomi mũũgĩ aikagia maitho kabere akona...
View ArticleEthnomathematics and Sociomathematics among the Aagĩkũyũ of Kenya.
This material was presented at the first National Aagĩkũyũ Cultural Convention held at the Kenyatta University, in Nairobi Kenya on the 17th 18th and 19th of June 2026. The presenter urgued that the...
View ArticleFirst Agĩkũyũ National Convention
The first Aagĩkũyũ National Convention will be held between 17th and 19th June 2026 at Kenyatta University conference hall. It is the first because it is hoped that this will be a regular event...
View ArticleThe Do’s and Dont’s of True Health
In traditional Gĩkũyũ society, a visit to a doctor, Mũndũmũgo was occassioned by a need to enter into the causative and underlying dynamics of such problems as why the house caught on fire or why the...
View ArticleEating Those we Know
In a traditional rural homestead nestled near the forest, most of what we eat comes from the immediate environment – that is anything from two to a ten mile radius. Because all garbage is thrown just...
View ArticleGĩkũyũ Marriage and Inheritance
According to Kikuyu custom a bride is earned through the payment, in goats and other items to the bride's clan. This is meant to buy the rights of any future offspring to be rightful members of the...
View ArticleFermentation as Blessings.
The purpose of presenting crates of soda during a wedding ceremony among the Kikuyu is for it to stand in for traditional beer, mũratina , Kigeria Africanus. The ceremonial presentation and drinking of...
View ArticleMũkũyũ’s response to calls for colonial atrocities apology
The old man’s name was Njoni (Gĩkũyũ name for a British soldier during the Mau-mau war) and he arrived in our parts quite some time back when Cirũ was just a young girl reaching puberty. Njoni one day...
View ArticleMy Sweet Love Affair – With Books
Am a great lover of books and in the early eighties I could spend lots of time inside bookshops like The Bookpoint in Moi Avenue browsing. The smell of books, especially of new books, is not just...
View ArticleGĩkũyũ Meat
The Gĩkũyũ people ate meat when there was a good reason for it like the coming of a new baby in the family or when someone in the family needed to be healed or recover from a disease. Meat was never a...
View ArticleA Mũũgĩkũyũ shares tobacco with Carl Jung
The more a person is an individual, the less he fits in a mass movement, and the goal of a true Mũũgĩkũyũ is the individualizing of life – gwĩcokanĩrĩria – individualized but not separate. This is what...
View ArticleGĩkũyũ and Mũmbi – The Constellation
The teaching of tribal lore and doctrines in all cultures all over the world were divided in at least two groups and this is so even for the Kikuyu doctrines, Kĩrĩra. It is true also of the Bible as...
View ArticleThe Uthungulization of the Aagĩkũyũ
Some time back a reader sent a request that I answer the question of why the Gĩkũyũ have become so light skinned, ũthũngũlized. “Have become”, because within the last 120 years when we have had...
View ArticleBreaking with the mother – Gũtua Rũrĩra
It is related in the Hebrew book of the New Testament that a certain Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, went to consult with Jesus in the dead of night. In the discussion that ensued regarding the Kingdom...
View ArticleThe Republic of Kenya Coat of Arms.
The official Coat of Arms of the Republic of Kenya is the highest symbol encoding the meaning, aspiration, intents and purposes of the said Republic. It is the quintessence, the distilled identity of...
View ArticleGĩkũyũ “Promisquity”
When a traditional Gĩkũyũ man found a spear planted upright into the earth outside his wife’s hut, he immediately took off to his hut, thingira, and waited for the owner to pass by his hut as he went...
View ArticleMbakĩ – Tobacco
Tobacco is one of the most powerful healing herbs on earth up until so-called scientific rockefeller medicine swept the world and prescription drugs became synonymous with the treatment of disease....
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