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Kikuyu
[ki-koo-yoo]
noun
plural
Kikuyus ,plural
Kikuyu .a member of an Indigenous people of Kenya having an agricultural economy and notable as being the originators of the Mau Mau.
the language of the Kikuyu, a Bantu language.
Also called kikuyu grass.Usually kikuyu a grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to southern Africa, sometimes used in warm climates for lawns or as pasturage.
Kikuyu
/ ɪˈːː /
noun
a member of a Negroid people of E Africa, living chiefly in Kenya on the high foothills around Mount Kenya
the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
Example Sentences
He also dropped English as the primary language for his literature and vowed to only write in his mother tongue, Kikuyu.
It was a fruitful 12 months, however - as Ngũgĩ wrote his first Kikuyu novel, Devil on the Cross, while in prison.
He is from the Kikuyu community, the country’s largest ethnic group, while President Ruto is a Kalenjin, an ethnic group which mainly lives in the Rift Valley.
Chira was buried next to his great-grandfather, and the villagers watched as the content creators stepped on the graves, contrary to the local Kikuyu community's traditions.
“If I think about Chapultepec a few years ago, the WGC we had there was kikuyu grass, bent grass greens, that’s what I grew up on. A little bit different here,” van Rooyen said.
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