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Dark Road in Kenya

Hoyt, Elizabeth E. | December 13, 1952 issue

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The article focuses on the author's experience of the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya. Children are taught by their parents to look toward Mount Kenya in the morning and in the evening, for among those snows, they say, is a holy place. In the Fort Hall district the country is all hills, and the planting is done either on slopes or in narrow valleys where streams become torrents in the rains and disappear in the dry season. Most of the Kikuyu schools were mission schools which the government subsidized, many new ones were being built, usually on hilltop, the materials and labor being furnished largely by the Kikuyu.

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KIKUYU (African people); EDUCATION; AGRICULTURE; WEATHER; KENYA, Mount (Kenya); KENYA

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