Definitions
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- noun a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya
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You forgot to mention the Ibos in Nigeria, the Gikuyu in Kenya, the Tutsi in Rwanda, or the Bamileke in Cameroon – all black African groups that are resented by other African tribal groups because of their industriousness and high educational attainment.
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I'm undeniably sensitive to mediums of human expression as well as its content -- so I was struck by learning that Ngugi drafted the first book that he wrote in his native Gikuyu language after pointedly abandoning English on post-colonial jailhouse toilet paper.
David Tereshchuk: Mixed-Media Extravaganza -- and a Global Message David Tereshchuk 2012
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I'm undeniably sensitive to mediums of human expression as well as its content -- so I was struck by learning that Ngugi drafted the first book that he wrote in his native Gikuyu language after pointedly abandoning English on post-colonial jailhouse toilet paper.
David Tereshchuk: Mixed-Media Extravaganza -- and a Global Message David Tereshchuk 2012
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I'm undeniably sensitive to mediums of human expression as well as its content -- so I was struck by learning that Ngugi drafted the first book that he wrote in his native Gikuyu language after pointedly abandoning English on post-colonial jailhouse toilet paper.
David Tereshchuk: Mixed-Media Extravaganza -- and a Global Message David Tereshchuk 2012
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Most of the material I've encountered on the settlers, though, focuses primarily on the Gikuyu, so I wouldn't have probably noticed this as a problem in Elkins's book, anyway.
Pep Talks 2010
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By the thirties and forties, of course, the Gikuyu situation was getting worse and by the fifties Mau Mau was a genuine response to a genuine existential crisis.
Pep Talks 2010
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You forgot to mention the Ibos in Nigeria, the Gikuyu in Kenya, the Tutsi in Rwanda, or the Bamileke in Cameroon–all black African groups that are resented by other African tribal groups because of their industriousness and high educational attainment.
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The Ancient Wise Man always comes from a noble tribe (not the money-grubbing tribes like the Gikuyu, the Igbo or the Shona).
Archive 2007-11-01 jen 2007
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The Ancient Wise Man always comes from a noble tribe (not the money-grubbing tribes like the Gikuyu, the Igbo or the Shona).
so very apt jen 2007
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Bantu was a respected poet whose work in English, Kiswahili and Gikuyu has been published in several journals.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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