EUROPEAN AND THE KIKUYU TO 1910

Abstract

The thesis deals with the Kikuyu tribes of East Africa, their early history, ethnography and relationships with Europeans and relationships with Europeans to 1910.Kikuyu society is described as in flux resulting from its migration to a new habitat from Shungwaya. Peripheral areas of the habitat were stressed by the proximity of the Masai, Arab and Swahili traders, European explorers, armed traders, officials of the Imperial British East Africa Company and latterly officers, civil and military, of the Protectorate Administration.