This is a lightly edited excerpt from Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu (Mercury Book, 1938). The country of the Gikuyu, whose system of tribal organisation will be described in ...

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Kenyatta's work - particularly his seminal anthropological book Facing Mount Kenya (1938) and the semi-autobiography ... Facing Mount Kenya. Kenya was a British colony from 1920 to 1963.

Facing Mount Kenya was translated into Naushangilia Mlima wa Kenya by veteran late journalist Lawrence John Kibui. The book was published by the East African Publishing House in 1966. An available ...

From a tree-shaded plateau facing Mount Kenya, the worshippers gaze anxiously at its melting ice cap and wonder: Is God dead?For 7 million Kenyans who rely on the runoff of Africa’s second ...

At 86, his gnarled hands grasping a walking stick as he ambled around his small patch of land facing Mount Kenya, Joseph Macharia Mwangi recalled with bitterness the years that he had spent ...