In a book subtitled Contrasts and Problems, a scholar who grew up among these people argued that cultural conflicts involving them meant that Lord Delamere's goal of creating a "white man's country" could never happen.
These people traditionally conduct rituals to ask for rain under sacred fig trees which they call mugumo. In a book subtitled Contrasts and Problems, a scholar who grew up among these people argued that cultural conflicts involving them meant that Lord Delamere's goal of creating a "white man's country" could never happen. An anthropological study disputes a colonialist fiction of communal land ownership which was used as an excuse to seize the land of these people, who use a system of nine seasons called imera. In 1936, (*) Louis Leakey was granted Rhodes trust funding to study this ethnic group, which he he grew up living with. This people's practice of female genital mutilation is studied in a book whose introduction provides the endorsement of the "trained western scholar" Bronislaw Malinowski. For 10 points, name this ethnic group studied in Facing Mount Kenya.
These people traditionally conduct rituals to ask for rain under sacred fig trees which they call mugumo.
Kikuyu people [or Agikuyu people]