Kikuyu (place)
| Kikuyu | |||
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 Kikuyu, January 2009 |
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| county | Kiambu County | ||
| Residents (state) | 323,881 pop (2019) | ||
| height | 1931 m | ||
| Coordinates | 1 ° 15 ′ S , 36 ° 40 ′ E | ||
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Kikuyu is a city in Kenya about 20 kilometers west of the capital Nairobi . It had around 324,000 inhabitants in 2019.
It emerged from the fort founded in 1891 near Dagoretti by Major Eric Smith, a British officer. The fort was on the caravan route from Mombasa to Uganda and was primarily intended to supply the numerous caravans of the Imperial British East Africa Company . Until the end of the colonial era, Kikuyu was therefore also called Fort Smith.
Kikuyu is home to the famous Alliance High School , which was attended by eminent people, such as the writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o .
Web links
- Kikuyu data from Falling Rain Genomics