It was also the longest novel ever written in his native Gikuyu language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Wizard] Reference

Richard set up a studio to make music videos (in one day) of the latest Gikuyu musicians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generation Kenya] Reference

Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995. 2d ed. Boulder, Colo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Bantu was a respected poet whose work in English, Kiswahili and Gikuyu has been published in several journals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Wamwere put it pointedly when he recounted a quasi-joking between he and some other Gikuyu and Kalenjin friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madhouse Called 'Home' (Kenya)] Reference

When I started writing in Gikuyu, I realised that the orature of African tradition is not limited in space or time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ngugi wa Thiong'o] Reference

The Ancient Wise Man always comes from a noble tribe (not the money-grubbing tribes like the Gikuyu, the Igbo or the Shona).    From Wordnik.com.  [so very apt] Reference

When the daughters returned, Gikuyu took the sticks and with them built an altar under the migumo tree, on which he sacrificed a lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai] Reference

His novels in Gikuyu include Devil on the Cross (translated into English by Ngugi himself) and Matigari (translated by Wangui wa Goro).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ngugi wa Thiong'o] Reference

By the thirties and forties, of course, the Gikuyu situation was getting worse and by the fifties Mau Mau was a genuine response to a genuine existential crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pep Talks] Reference

Translation allows him to have a dialogue with culture, as he negotiates between the mischievousness and tonality present in Gikuyu, but non-existent in English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ngugi wa Thiong'o] Reference

What was a coalition government, demanded by Kenyans so we could peacefully start to rebuild our country and government, has been commandeered by Gikuyu ethnic nationalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generation Kenya] Reference

Most of the material I've encountered on the settlers, though, focuses primarily on the Gikuyu, so I wouldn't have probably noticed this as a problem in Elkins's book, anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pep Talks] Reference

In his book, "Decolonising the Mind", the Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiongo, writes about the consternation among some Europeans that he had started writing in his native language, Gikuyu.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

Steve, while it's true that you can certainly tell a Cushite from a Gikuyu, nobody these days speaks of the "Cushite race," anymore than they would speak of the Norwegian or Greek races.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of Africa] Reference

"Steve, while it's true that you can certainly tell a Cushite from a Gikuyu, nobody these days speaks of the "Cushite race," anymore than they would speak of the Norwegian or Greek races.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of Africa] Reference

You forgot to mention the Ibos in Nigeria, the Gikuyu in Kenya, the Tutsi in Rwanda, or the Bamileke in Cameroon–all black African groups that are resented by other African tribal groups because of their industriousness and high educational attainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

You forgot to mention the Ibos in Nigeria, the Gikuyu in Kenya, the Tutsi in Rwanda, or the Bamileke in Cameroon – all black African groups that are resented by other African tribal groups because of their industriousness and high educational attainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

But the decision to write primarily in Gikuyu was both groundbreaking and ridiculously brave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

To limit your immediate audience to Gikuyu speakers must have looked like commercial suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Jean Davison, Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995, 2d ed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Still living in exile and writing primarily in Gikuyu, Ngugi continues to spin captivating tales.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

See Jean Davison, Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995, 2d ed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Bantu's poetry has been published in several journals and anthologies in English, Kiswahili and Gikuyu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poéfrika] Reference

But what separates Ngugi from his Nobel predecessor is his brave and polemical decision to write in his first language, Gikuyu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

It was the infectiousness of his stories, their accessibility in Gikuyu and swift absorption into popular culture that frightened the authorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

He’s the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal Mutiiri.    From Wordnik.com.  [TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Ngugi wa Thiongo on Kenya’s Struggle for Democracy] Reference

"It was almost as if, in choosing to write in Gikuyu, I was doing something abnormal.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

In Gikuyu, If two women meet and one is dressed well, they don’t compliment each other, instead they mock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ngugi wa Thiong'o] Reference

After all, the complicating factor is that Mau Mau really would have been unthinkable in the teens and early twenties and she left Kenya in 1925, since it really wasn’t until the thirties and forties that land got chronically scarce for the Gikuyu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pep Talks] Reference

Gikuyu, his mother tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

You Gikuyu had yours. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madhouse Called 'Home' (Kenya)] Reference

Together, Gikuyu and Mumbi had ten daughtersWanjiru, Wambui, Wangari, Wanjiku, Wangui, Wangeci, Wanjeri, Nyambura, Wairimu, and Wamuyubut they had no sons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai] Reference