For the Kikuyu people, the largest ethnic group in Kenya, land is identity, explained journalist Bea Wangondu in her ...

In the forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their ...

Kenya's recent presidential election unleashed turmoil that has so far claimed more than 500 lives and displaced thousands of people. Blame has been pinned on Kenya's ethnic divisions: The Luo tribe ...

Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethnic rivalries are a reality of life in Kenya, where President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election has triggered days of riots and ethnic killings, in which opposition supporters ...

KATATA, KENYA — Laborers living on a tiny coffee farm here in western Kenya awoke in the middle of the night last week to an odd light radiating from their huts. At first it seemed like an early ...

NAIROBI, KENYA — He’s a preacher’s son and part-time college student who idolizes Martin Luther King Jr. and aspires to escape Kenya’s biggest slum. But when this East African nation erupted in ...

KISUMU, Kenya — Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe Monday in western Kenya’s Rift Valley, torching homes and buses, clashing with police, ...

They grew up in farming villages -- Teddy Chwanya in the rolling hills of western Kenya and Samuel Mathu amid the cattle and flower farms of the country's lush central region. Both men left home to ...