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Kikuyu|kɪˈkuːjuː|
[Native name.]
a. The name of an agricultural Negroid people, the largest Bantu-speaking group in Kenya; a member of this people; the language they speak. Also attrib. or as adj.
1894N. Bell tr. L. von Höhnel's Discovery Lakes Rudolf & Stefanie II. vi. 298 Our attention was called to another party of about forty natives approaching us... Whether they were Masai or Kikuyu neither we nor our guide could tell, so the Count went off with one or two of our Kikuyu friends to ascertain. 1904H. Hinde Vocab. Kamba & Kikuyu Lang. p. v, Both the Kamba and Kikuyu languages belong to the Bantu group and their construction is precisely similar to that of Swahili. Ibid. p. xviii, It is not unfrequent, in general conversation, both in Kamba and Kikuyu, to ignore the conjugated forms of the verb. 1911J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 76 This curious pretence of being born again regularly formed part of the initiatory rites through which every Kikuyu lad and every Kikuyu girl had to pass before he or she was recognised as a full-grown member of the tribe. 1920New Statesman 10 July 391/1 The Kikuyu, bending over their cultivated plots. 1935E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. (1936) iii. i. 173 Kamau, the driver, was a Kikuyu. 1936Discovery June 195/1 Brought up to speak Kikuyu from childhood. 1950D. Jones Phoneme 20 In one form of the Kikuyu language of Kenya the sounds ϕ, β and b appear to be..constituting a single phoneme. 1955Times 7 June 6/5 The weakening of the Mau Mau is most noticeable to the east of Mount Kenya, where its Meru and Embu supporters are less determined than the Kikuyus. 1958Times 8 Jan. 6/7 After warnings in Kikuyu had been given over a loudhailer and ignored, the staff opened fire on the rioters' barricade. 1967M. J. Coe Ecol. Alpine Zone Mt. Kenya 1 Kikuyu folk-lore tells how, when the earth was formed, a man named Mogai made a great mountain. 1973Nature 11 May 107/1 At Cambridge he studied Modern French, Medieval French and Kikuyu for Part 1 of the Tripos.
b. Kikuyu grass, a creeping perennial grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to the highlands of Kenya, and cultivated elsewhere as a lawn and fodder grass.
1913Rep. Dept. Agric. Union S. Afr. 1910–11 241 Kikuyu grass... We received in good condition a rooted plant of the Kikuyu-grass of British East Africa. This has been planted out and has made vigorous growth; it has not yet flowered, and I am therefore unable to name it. 1921Kew Bull. 85 (heading) Kikuyu grass. Ibid. 93 Kikuyu grass in the presence of water will put on top-growth. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Oct. 22/2 Now is the time in N.S.W. to plant Kikuyu grass, which is suitable to any class of soil that is not binding. 1951Edwards & Bogdan Important Grassland Plants of Kenya ii. 62 In the Highland Forest regions Kikuyu grass occupies the land for a period following clearance of the forest climax. 1970W. Smith Gold Mine xxviii. 67 Rod escorted the Steyners down across the vivid green lawns of Kikuyu grass.
c. A controversy in the Anglican Church, which first arose at the Kikuyu Conference of 1913, regarding the admissibility to Holy Communion of the members of other Christian churches. Also attrib.
1914H. Henson (title) The issue of Kikuyu. 1915C. Kelway Story of Kikuyu 8 The mission field is, in fact, full of potential ‘Kikuyus’..the vital questions which emerge from the Kikuyu Conference. 1915L. Pullan Missionary Princ. & Primate on Kikuyu 31 This pronouncement on the Kikuyu question is considered official. 1965S. Neill Anglicanism (ed. 3) xiii. 366 The years after the First World War introduced a new period of more dramatic possibilities and intenser strains. The trouble started with the Kikuyu controversy. |