The Kikuyu Home Guard (also Home Guard or Kikuyu Guard) was a government paramilitary force in Kenya from early 1953 until January 1955.[1] It was formed in response to insurgent attacks during the Mau Mau Uprising.
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and the villagers themselves were watched over by members of the KikuyuHomeGuard, often neighbours and relatives. In short, rewards or collective punishments...
characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central...
movement but rather started to work for the whiteman, first joining the KikuyuHomeGuard and then becoming Chief during the Emergency. This incurred a lot...
massacred approximately 74 people, including some members of the loyalist HomeGuard, but mostly their families: women, children and elderly relatives. Those...
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out that most of the people executed were actually belonged to the KikuyuHomeGuard – a loyalist militia recruited by the British to fight a guerrilla...
forest to flush out the rebels, while African members of the local KikuyuHomeGuard policed the forest boundary. The sweeps were conducted by two junior...
out that most of the people executed were actually belonged to the KikuyuHomeGuard – a loyalist militia recruited by the British to fight an increasingly...
labour. The government brought in British troops and formed a homeguard of 20,000 Kikuyu. During this time, Louis played a difficult and contradictory...
camps. More than 80,000 Kikuyu were held in detention camps without trial, often subject to brutal treatment. The HomeGuard formed the core of the government's...
becoming politically engaged through the Kikuyu Central Association. In 1929, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs. During the 1930s, he...
The Luo are the fourth-largest ethnic group (10.65%) in Kenya, after the Kikuyu (17.13%), the Luhya (14.35%) and the Kalenjin (13.37%). The Tanzanian Luo...
one of several girls' homes and schools run by the Africa Inland Mission. The relationship between the missionaries and the Kikuyu members of the AIM's...
forces were not part of the Kenya African National Union [KANU], and many Kikuyu openly referred to the KAR as the "KADU army." In 1959, the Kalenjin, Kamba...
population. This obviously works to the disadvantage, especially, of the Kikuyu and the Luo." From the 1990s the Kenya Army became involved in United Nations...
shortly before going into labour, in 1966. Lady Zibiah Wangari Ngatho, a Kikuyu, from Nairobi, Kenya. Lady Catherine Karungu, a Munyankole princess from...
both Kenyans and the world was a deliberate burning of live people, mostly Kikuyu women, and children huddled together in a church" in Kiambaa on 1 January...
to protect the Kikuyu population from the Mau Mau guerrillas (who called themselves the “Land and Freedom Army”) by interning the Kikuyu in camps. A scandal...
them open to encroachment by other communities. By the early 1880s, Kamba, Kikuyu and Kalenjin raiders were making inroads into Maasai territory, and the...
site is home of the Bono people. There are many groups of trees and groves that remain sacred to local indigenous populations, such as the Kikuyu, the Maasai...
Buddhism, Jainism and Bön Mount Kenya – Kenya, traditionally sacred to the Kikuyu people in Kenya Mount Kilimanjaro – Tanzania. Sacred to the Chaga people...
power transformer outside the student hostel at the University of Nairobi Kikuyu Campus sent pupils panicking in fear of another attack. Some students jumped...
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