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Cenchrus clandestinus is a rhizomatous grass with matted roots and a grass-like or herbaceous habit. The leaves are green, flattened or upwardly folded along the midrib, 10–150 mm (0.39–5.91 in) long, and 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) wide.
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A typical Gusii house has conical grass thatched roofs, and is typically round, though sometimes rectangular, in shape. Today, Gusii houses are still similar, though corrugated iron sheets and stone is sometimes used for the roofs and walls. [9] [26] The traditional Gusii compound had elevated granaries for storing crops, such as millet and ...
Ondiri Wetland (sometimes ũndirĩ Swamp [1]) is a protected wetland and peatbog that is the source of the Nairobi River near Kikuyu, Kenya in Kiambu County. [2] It was formerly known as ‘Kihenia’ (meaning shiny surface). However white settlers renamed it ‘Old Lake’, which was later pronounced as“Ondiri”. [3]
Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) mostly refers to an ethnic group in Kenya or its associated language. It may also refer to: Kikuyu people, a majority ethnic group in Kenya; Kikuyu language, the language of Kikuyu people; Kikuyu, Kenya, a town in Central province in the Eastern African country; Kikuyu Central Association, a political organisation ...
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia.Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass.This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.
Re-narrated Horizon episode, first aired in the UK in 1972. [4]We give you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood wasp laying its eggs inside trees, the hatching of a chick and the courtship rituals of the stickleback.
The regime leaned on the support of the Kalenjin and incited the Maasai against the Kikuyu. Government politicians denounced the Kikuyu as traitors, obstructed their registration as voters and threatened them with dispossession. In 1993 and after, mass evictions of Kikuyu took place, often with the direct involvement of army, police and game ...