In any Kikuyu traditional homestead  the woman’s hut was the cradle of the family traditions and it loomed over the traditional homestead both in physical size and psychologically The English word ‘house’ to the Kikuyu mind refers to any building  but ‘house’ in Kikuyu  Nyumba  in the context of a home is that which was built for a specific married woman as no two married women ever shared a house