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 ...

Growing up in Mathira, Nyeri County, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua must have gazed at the imposing Mount Kenya with respect. Perhaps he has meditated on the 1938 anthropology, Facing Mount ...

Riggy G, a self-declared “son of Mau Mau” did not disclose if his choice of Mt Kenya was inspired by the liberation fighters’ exploits, who hid in the same mount for nine years. Or if his ...

By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nyeri and Nairobi, Kenya. At 86, his gnarled hands grasping a walking stick as he ambled around his small patch of land facing Mount Kenya, Joseph Macharia ...

Followers of Kenya's outlawed Mungiki sect were once known for tobacco sniffing, trademark dreadlocks and praying while facing Mount Kenya. But the sect, which was banned in 2002, has undergone a ...