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The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya , making them Kenya's largest ethnic group.
The Kikuyu regarded female genital mutilation, which they called irua or circumcision, [6] as an important rite of passage between childhood and adulthood. [7] " Irua" consisted largely of three procedures: removal of the clitoral glans (clitoridectomy or Type I); removal of the clitoral glans and inner labia (excision or Type II); and removal of all the external genitalia and the suturing of ...
Wangũ wa Makeri (c. 1856–1915 or 1936 [1] [2]) was a Kikuyu tribal chief, known as a headman, during the British Colonial period in Kenya.She was the only female Kikuyu headman during the period, who later resigned following a scandal in which she engaged in a Kibata dance,this was the ultimate transgression since kibata was never to be danced by women.
In regions that took longer to assimilate into Western countries and benefit from advanced schooling systems, the girls experienced greater education inequality. Kikuyu, Luo and other groups have benefited from this early educational influence experience greater academic achievement and female enrollment in the long term than in other tribes. [3]
Alliance Girls' High School (AGHS) is a public national boarding school for girls located near the small town of Kikuyu in Kiambu County, 20 km from Nairobi.Founded in 1948 as the African Girls' High School, it is within walking distance from its brother school Alliance High School.
In surveys in 2002–2006, 30 percent of cut girls in Djibouti, 38 percent in Eritrea, and 63 percent in Somalia had experienced Type III. [81] There is also a high prevalence of infibulation among girls in Niger and Senegal, [82] and in 2013 it was estimated that in Nigeria three percent of the 0–14 age group had been infibulated. [83]
This was led by Arthur which ultimately led to him being denounced by the Kikuyu Central Association and losing the political backing of the natives. [citation needed] In 1947, Irvine stated that the Church would accept a hundred unexcised women. While the schools did not expel excised girls, he publicized that all the top girls were not excised.
The Kikuyu population exhibited an increasingly hostile attitude towards the Maasai. As a result of their residence in drier regions and the impact of the famine, the Maasai engaged in extensive livestock, women, and food raiding in the Kikuyu, Embu, and Mbeere areas of the highlands. This included the murder of women and children.