Kikuyu Quotes
- Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff… — Wangari Maathai
- Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. — Louis Leakey
- When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans… — Louis Leakey
- Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around severalmothers, all wives… — Melvin Konner