- Anthropology, East Africa, Ethnology, Kikuyu (African people)
Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is an anthropological study of the people of the Kikuyu tribe of central Kenya. It was written by native Kikuyu and future Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta.
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Grave, earnest, cool and contemplative.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Jomo Kenyatta
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- AMS Press, Vintage Books, Mercury Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780435902193
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“THE GIKUYU tribal organisation is based on three most important factors, without which there can be no harmony in the tribal activities.”
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