Kenya's first post-independence leader, Jomo Kenyatta, president from 1964 until 1978, was a Kikuyu.
Nairobi was on the Maasai plains, at the point where the plains joined the Kikuyu highlands.
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The Mungiki is an outlawed sect made up of members of the Kikuyu tribe.
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Both the Kikuyu and the Luo played instrumental roles in bringing independence and democracy to Kenya.
Endemic Kikuyu grass is ideal for rehabilitating soils, as it is rich in nutrients.
But to farmer Jeffrey Indiama, if those folks voted for Kibaki, they might as well be Kikuyu.
The Kikuyu, if I'm saying that right, is Kenya's largest tribe, with 22 percent of the population.
Yet I trust Chirchir, who is polite to a fault, with money more than my Kikuyu brothers.
Mostly originating from Kenya's central highlands, the Kikuyu have long wielded strong economic and political power within the country.
Much of the Rift Valley was divvied up amongst Kikuyu under Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, himself a Kikuyu.
Kenyatta is an ethnic Kikuyu who is the son of Kenya's founding president.
By that I mean that in Kenya, the largest group, the Kikuyu, make up about 15 percent of the population.
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Mr Kenyatta is an ethnic Kikuyu while Mr Ruto is a Kalenjin.
The incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki, from the Kikuyu ethnic group, stayed on.
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Last week's election pitched incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, a member of Kenya's largest Kikuyu tribe, against opposition leader Raila Odinga of the Luo tribe.
Supporters of Kibaki, a member of the Kikuyu tribe, battled with machetes on the streets with supporters of Odinga, a member of the Luo tribe.
He has his mother to thank for ensuring that he mastered the local Kikuyu language, which helps him to connect with his countrymen in rural areas.
When he goes back to the pulpit, Mburu says he will remind his mostly Kikuyu flock to be ready for the possibility that tomorrow may never come.
In recent months, Odinga has made it a priority to reach out to the country's middle class and businessmen, many of whom belong to Kibaki's tribe, the Kikuyu.
Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga each claimed more than 90% of the vote in many of their respective Kikuyu and Luo strongholds, according to the partial results available Friday evening.
On one side of the road live the Kikuyu.
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Kameme FM, one of the main Kikuyu-language stations, has also been airing a song which asks God to "hear our prayers and watch over our nation" since Kenyans were "rising against each other".
The men, all supporters of Mr Odinga's opposition Orange Democratic Movement, denied involvement in attacks on members of Mr Kibaki's Party for National Unity and his Kikuyu ethnic group in the Rift Valley.
Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo said the leaflets found in Kisumu, a city in western Kenya, were inciting Luo residents to chase away people from the Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities, who traditionally support Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto.
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