bundu, 60
Bura, 25
Burkitt, Dr Roland, 89–91
Burma, 162
Burnt Forest, 86, 99
Buxton, Aline, Kenya Days, 204
Buzurg ibn Shahriyar of Ramhormutz, Kitab al-Ajaib al-Hind, 16
Bwana, 42
Cairo, 11, 15, 63, 64, 109
castration, 30
Cambay, 128
Cameroon, xxv
Camoens, Luis de, 19, 20; Lusiads, 20
cannibalism, 12, 13, 128–30, 347; in legend, 383–4
Cape, 63, 146
Cape Town, 63
Carnegie, V. M., A Kenyan Farm Diary, 60, 109, 117
Casuarina Point, 222
Chagga (tribe), 23
Chamberlain, Joseph, 76
Chania river, 170
Chanler, William Astor, 34; Through Jungle and Desert, 35
Chartered Co., 23
Chemosit, 358
Cherangani hills, 30
Cholmondely, Hugh, 72; see Delamere, Lord
Christian, 18, 21, 114, 130, 139, 169, 181, 182, 315, 336; Kikuyu, 320; missionaries, 9, 23–6, 350
Churchill, Winston, 295; My African Journey, 80
Church Missionary Society, 23
circumcision, 319–23, 334, 349; of girls, 322–3; re-enactment of ceremony in cure for infertility, 354–5; value placed on courage during, 319–20
climate, 76, 79, 117–18, 185; drought, 188–9, 190–1, 198, 207, 344–5, 368; dust devils, 191, 211; monsoon, 216, 217, 230, 232
Cobbold, Lady Evelyn, Kenya: The Land of Illusion, 111
Cobham-Blackburn Company, 63
Colito, battle of, 159, 160
colonialism, xxv, 70
Columbus, Christopher, 16–17
Colvile, Gilbert (Nyasore), 81
Congo, 63, 192
Connolly, Cyril, The Evening Colonnade, 248
Cook, David and David Rubadiri, eds., Poems from East Africa, 415, 420, 421, 426
Cooley, W. D., 25; Inner Africa Laid Open, 24
coolies, 47, 48, 51
Cott, Hugh B., Looking at Animals, 258
courtship and marriage, 219–20, 325, 326, 327, 329–37, 345, 402; see also polygamy
Cowie, Mervyn, 269, 292; Fly, Vulture, 293
Cranworth, Lord, A Colony in the Making, 286; Kenya Chronicles, 85, 141, 302
Crosskill, Captain W. E., 157; The Two Thousand Mile War, 157, 162
da Gama, Vasco, 18–19, 20–2, 127, 219; “Vasco da Gama Pillar”, 22; see also Ravenstein, E. G.
Dagoretti, 132
Dak bungalow, 56, 57, 91
d’Almeida, Dorn Francisco, 127
Dar es Salaam, 140, 145, 152, 285
Darwin glacier, 38
Davidson, Basil, The African Past, 12
debbi (debbe), 97
Delamere, Lord (third Baron, Hugh Cholmondely), 63, 72, 80–1, 88, 98, 180, 205, 206, 286–7
Denbigh, Earl of, 103
de Watteville, Vivienne, Speak to the Earth, 191
“dia”, 360
Dictionary of National Biography, 28
District Commissioner, 315; functions of, 364–72
Ditto, 28
djinn, 223
Dodose, 279
donga, 60
Dorobo (tribe), xxv, 275, 315, 346; association with the Maasai, 320; as beekeepers, 320; as guides on bongo hunt, 300–2; in legend, 375–6
dorp, 96
dorrah, 12
dos Santos, Father Joao, 128
Douglas-Hamilton, Iain, 234; and Oria Douglas-Hamilton, 237; Among the Elephants, 236, 237, 239
Dubas, 366
dudus, 261
duka, 102, 361; in legend, 387–9
Dutton, E. A. T., Kenya Mountain, 194, 195
Duyvendak, J. J. L., China’s Discovery of Africa, 17
Dyer, Anthony, 243; Classic African Animals: The Big Five, 245
early man, 1–6; australopithecines, 1, 2; Australopithecus boisei (Zinjanthropus), 2, 3; discovery of fire, 5; Homo erectus, 3-6, habilis 3, 4, sapiens, 4, 5; hunting-and-gathering, 4, 5; “Laetoli footsteps”, 5-6; ritual, 5; stone-tool manufacture, 5
elecampane, 12
East African Army, 164
East African Brigade, 157
East African commission, 77
East African Community, 58
East African Mounted Rifles, 141, 148
East African Railways and Harbours, 57, 58
East African Standard, 158, 303
East African Transport Corps, 148
East Turkana, 2
Eburru, 306
Edinburgh, Duke of, 120, 291–3
education, 341–2, 362, 375, 406
Eldama Ravine, 85, 86, 230, 275; Lake, 230
Eldoret, 87, 96, 99, 362
Elementeita, 57, 105
Elephantophagoi (Elephant-eaters), 270
Elgeyo (tribe), 111, 337; Reserve, 111
Elgon, Mount, 30, 114, 192, 193, 356
Elgonyi (tribe), 356–7
Eliot, Sir Charles, 69, 76; The East Africa Protectorate, 47, 50, 186, 311, 382
Elizabeth, Princess, 291–3
Ellis, Sergeant, 201
el-Mazrui (tribe), 22, 23
Elmolo (tribe), 32
El-moran (tribe), 27, 135
El-morúú (tribe), 28
El Wak, 153, 156
Embu (tribe), 169, 175
Emery, Acting Lieutenant James, 23
Empaash, 320
Emperor of China, 17
Endara, 25
Endo (tribe), 334
En-jemusi (tribe), 334
Ethaga (tribe), 319
Ethiopia, 1, 2, 156, 185, 208, 334, 345, 361; Ethiopians, 225
Eunoto, 327
Euaso, 327
famine, 200
Fanshawe, Richard, trans., Luis de Camoens, Lusiads, 20
farming, 70–5, 78–88, 204, 207, 225, 229, 269; coffee, 85, 89, 101, 120–1, 221; crop disease, 80–1, 98, 114; harvesting, 101, 113–16; lure and drawbacks of, 79–80; ploughing, 70, 88, 100, 112–13; problems with game, 98, 286, 291, 303, locusts, 108–10, weather, 98–9, 105–8, 118; rinderpest, 69, 109, 324; sheep 82–3; sisal, 84–5, TOL farms, 303
fertility emblem, 316–17, 320
Fey, Venn, Wide Horizons, 79, 264, 265, 406
Finch Hatton, Denys, 282, 285, 289
fingo, 223
First World War, 140–53
Fisher, Angela, Africa Adorned, 350
Fisher, Suzanne, We Lived on the Verandah, 91
flying boat service, 63
Flying Doctor service, 225, 243
foreign aid, 344–5
Fort Hall xxv; Kikuyu, 77; medicine man, 354
Fort Jesus, 22, 23, 130–1
Fort Smith, 132, 134
fossils, 1–6
Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P., The East African Coast: Select Documents, 16, 128, 130
fundis, 102
Galla (tribe), 23, 127, 223, 272
game parks/reserves, 213, 229, 269, 308
Gandar Dower, Kenneth, Abyssinian Patchwork, 156, 161; The Spotted Lion, 290
Gatheru, Mugo, 166; Child of Two Worlds, 167, 320, 356
Gedi, 222–4; Palace, 222–3
German East Africa, 140, 141, 143, 145, 146, 148
ghosts, 223–4
gicuhi, 336
Gikuyu (tribe), 359
Gikuyu and Mumbi, 165, 166, 167, 175
Gilgil, 108
Gilks, Dr John, 91
Giriami (tribe), 221, 272
gitaruru, 337
gitete, 174
githii gia ikami, 336
githingua, 263
Githinji, 165
Gladstone, Captain Tony, AFC, 63
Goa, 128, 130, 131
Gold Coast, 153
Gondar, fortress of, 162
Government House (Nairobi), 203, 205, 206
Gray, Sir John, The British in Mombasa 1824–1826, 23
Great Mosque (Gedi) 222
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sp; Great Rift Valley, 1, 2, 49, 69, 73, 78, 185, 190, 230, 254, 306
Greensmith, Peter, 208
Gregory, Dr Walter, 35–8; The Great Rift Valley, 38, 346; Under the Sun, 90
Guaso Nyiro, 34, 62
Guest, Frederick and Amy, 280
Gura river, 170
haboub, 64
Haj, the, 315
Hameye, 34
Hanley, Gerard, Warriors and Strangers, 162
Happy Valley, 119, 207
Harar, 207
Hardy, Ronald, The Iron Snake, 51, 202
Harris, P. Wyn, 39
Hayes-Sadler, Sir James, 140
Haynes, Phyllis, Poems of Kenya, 427
Hayward, John, 292
Hemingway, Ernest, 298
Heminway, John, The Imminent Rains, 123
Henderson, Ian, 178; and Philip Goodhart, The Hunt for Kimathi, 179
Herodotus, 257
Herzel, Dr Theodor, 76
Hill brothers, 286
Hillaby, John, Journey to the Jade Sea, 340, 361
Hindu, 102, 214–15; Hindu Union (Mombasa), 214
Hobley, C. W., Bantu Beliefs and Magic, 385; Kenya: From Chartered Company to Crown Colony, 23, 55, 260
Hodges, Geoffrey, The Carrier Corps, 148, 149
Hollis, A. C., The Masai: Their Language and Folklore, 356, 376, 379, 387; The Nandi, 359, 364, 377
Home Guard, 169, 171, 175, 181, 182
hongo, 27
Hook, Simon, 378, 379, 380, 384
Hughes, Ian Meredith, Black Moon, Jade Sea, 58, 344
Huntingford, G. W. B., ed., The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 9, 11, 270
Huxley, Elspeth, Forks and Hope, 120, 209; ed., Nellie: Letters from Africa, 65, 170; No Easy Way, 87, 98; Out in the Midday Sun, 104, 182, 335, 363, 369; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, 189, 222; White Man’s Country, 57, 74, 77, 81, 88, 99; and Arnold Curtis, eds., Pioneers’ Scrapbook, 60, 63, 94, 217; and Hugo van Lawick, Last Days in Eden, 233
Huxley, Juliette, Wild Lives of Africa, 241
IBEA Company, 34
Ileret, 4
illness, 350–5; bubonic plague, 9; dysentery, 28, 50, 71, 148; hookworm, 148; malaria, 50, 89, 91, 148; pneumonia, 86, 89, 148; smallpox, 69, 70
Imperial Airways, 63
Imperial British East Africa Company, 9, 29, 45
Imuron, 361
Indangasi, H., “The death of my father”, 422
Indian Ocean, 1, 9, 16, 185, 196, 214, 216, 218
infibulation, 319
Ionides, G. J. P., 304; A Hunter’s Life, 305
Isiolo, 60, 291
Islamic faith, 9, 14–16, 20, 37, 102, 130, 389, 402
Itare River, 319
itete, 174
Ithanga Hills, 85
Ithnaashariya (tribe), 219
itimu ria nduthu, 336
itungati, 175
Ituri forest, 192
ivory, 9, 10, 12, 29, 94, 269–79, passim, 283–4, 304, 311
Jackson, Frederick, 29, 33; Early Days in East Africa, 29, 34, 42
Jagga, 24, 25
jahazi, 217
jemadar, 47
jembe, 389
Jeoffreys, Major Owen, 179
Jilaal, 366
Johnston, Sir Harry, The Uganda Protectorate, 230
Jomo Kenyatta Airport, 213
Juba river, 141
Jung, Dr Carl, 356; Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 357
Kafue River, 258
Kagumo, 164
Kahari, 230
Kahungwa muhori, 169
kalari, 12
Kamba (tribe), xxv, 54
Kamera, William, “Poem in four parts”, 425
Kamiti river, 255
Kampala, 39
“Kanyoni”, 177
Kapiti plains, 56
Kapote, 136; plains, 135
Kapsabet, 139
Kapsiliat, 110, 111
Kaputei plains, 327
KAR, 156, 160, 203
Karamojo, 29, 276; (language) 276; Karamojans, 276, 278; Karamojong, 276
Kariara, Jonathan, “A leopard lives in a muu tree”, 421; “Grass will grow”, 422; and J. Kitonga, Introduction to East African Poetry, 422, 425
Kariko, 337
Karungu, 145
Karuri’s, 52
Kasigau, 281
kaskazi, 216
KAU, 173
Kavirondo, 50; (tribe) 41, 109, 357
Kayahwe River, 319, 354
Kedong (tribe), 52; Valley 52
Keekonyokie moran, 326–7
Kegnia, the, 25
Kenya, colonization by Arabs, Persians, Portuguese and British, xxiii, xxiv, 9, 46, 205, 225; as “cradle of mankind”, xxiv, 3, 4; effects of colonial rule, 70; independence, 120, 180, 225, 341, 342, 361, 412; known as Kenya (1920), xxiv; population explosion, 70, 185, 200, 204, 229, 269, 367; Republic of Kenya, 120, 182, 185; religious and cultural mix, 315; rise of nationalism, 69–70, 164; tourism, 269; uhuru, 120, 342; see also British East Africa; British Protectorate; German East Africa; Kenyatta, Mzee Jomo
Kenya, Mount, 1, 25, 35, 37, 38, 85, 162, 163, 166, 167, 170, 174, 190, 194, 231, 235, 243, 273, 291, 329, 335, 354, 386
Kenya African Freedom, 171
Kenya Legislative Council, 63
“Kenya Parliament”, 175, 180
Kenya Planters’ Coffee Union (KPCU), 120
Kenya Regiment and Police Reserve, 171–3
Kenya Railways, 58
Kenyan Army, 335
Kenyatta, Mzee Jomo, 120, 135, 180–2; Facing Mount Kenya, 359, 361
Ketosh, 29
khanjars, 217
Khartoum, 63, 64, 65
kiama, 360
Kiambu, 75, 89, 168
Kibera, Valerie, ed., An Anthology of East African Short Stories, 213
Kibigori, 50
Kibwezi, 35, 71, 133, 134
kigori, 318
Kijabe, 28
Kikipiri, 120
kikois, 217, 258
Kikuyu (tribe), 26, 30, 51, 53, 54, 75, 77, 89, 91, 102, 105, 169, 170, 173, 175, 176, 178, 181, 182, 213, 365, 388–9; annexation of lands, 69; childhood, 318; Christian, 320; circumcision, 319–20; Council of Elders, 166, 360; country, 70, 72; death among, 355–6; daughters, 317–18; execution of a sorcerer, 360–1; Guard, 169; as honey-hunters, 263–4; initiation, 318; language adopted by whites, 72; oath-taking, 166–7; polygamy, 331; rehoused, 120; Reserve, 84, 164, 167, 168; resistance to British rule, 132–5; “Squatters”, 164; surgery, 353; war dance, 345–6 wedding, 335–7; and the white man’s medicine, 52, 72; see also Mau Mau
Kikuyu Escarpment, 51
kilangozi, 42
Kilifi Creek, 217
Kilima-Mbogo, 354
Kilimanjaro, Mount, 1, 24, 25, 146
Kilindini, 56, 130
kilinge, 352
Kilungu, 136
Kilwa, 152
Kimathi, “General” Dedan, 173–80
Kinaini river, 178
Kinangop, 77
King’s African Rifles, 141, 146, 148, 149, 152, 153, 285
Kinlock, Bruce, The Shamba Raiders, 308
Kinnear, George, 158
Kinyona, 77
kiondo, 336
Kipkabus, 87
Kipsigis, xxv
Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), 174
Kirkman, James, 222; Men and Monuments of the East African Coast, 224
Kismayu, 157, 158
Kisumu, 63, 215
Ki-Swahili, xxv
Kitale, 29
Kitson, Frank, Gangs and Counter-Gangs, 168
Kitui, 25, 365
Kleen, G. F. V., ed., Bror von Blixen: The Africa Letters, 282
Knappert, Jan, Africa and Übersee, 402, 403; A Choice of Flowers, 400, 401; Four Centuries of Swahili Verse, 402, 404; Myths and Legends of the Swahili, 384
kofia, 33
kondo, 385
Kora, 241
kraal, 92, 132, 135, 201, 338, 340, 356
Krapf, Johann Ludwig, 23–6; Travels, Resea
rches and Missionary Labours, 24, 25, 26
kuku, 385
Kulall, Mount, 32
kungwi, 318
kusi, 216
Laetoli, 5; “Laetoli footsteps”, 5–6
Lagonani, 136
laibon, 137–40; see also Lybons
Laikipia, 36, 190
Lake Manyara National Park, 237
Lamb, David, The Africans, 342, 362
Lamu, 29, 216, 217, 218–22, 396; buibuis 220; dress, 219; extra-marital affairs, 219–20; rats, 220; social institutions, 218–20
landies, 201
Lansing & Co., 201
Lari massacre, 169
law and order, 363–72
Laws, Dr Richard, 229
Leakey, Jonathan, 3
Leakey, Dr Louis, xxiv, 2, 3, 62
Leakey, Dr Mary, xxiv, 4, 5; Disclosing the Past, 62; Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man, 4
Leakey, Sergeant Nigel, 159–60
Leakey, Dr Richard, xxiv, 2–6, 310; The Making of Mankind, 5, 6; and Roger Lavin, People of the Lake, 2
Lebbi, 366
Leboyare, Ngatini, 378, 379, 380, 384
Le Breton, J. G., Kenya Sketches, 389
Lenana, 163
Lengobe, 28
Lewis glacier, 38
Lipscomb, J. F., We Built a Country, 122, 187
Lloyd-Jones, W., Havash!, 94
Lololokwe, 62
Londiani, 87
Longido, 142, 146
Longonot, 306
Lorian Swamp, 262
Loriu Hills, 199
Losai Hills, 339
Loyangallani, 240
Lugard, Captain Frederick, 39–40; The Rise of our East African Empire, 40
Luo, 213
Luvai, Arthur, ed., Boundless Voices: Poems from Kenya, 418, 423
Lybons, 28; see also laibon
Lytton, Earl of, The Desert and the Green 240, 325
Maasai (tribe), xxv, 27, 28, 45, 51, 52, 62, 69–77, 78, 81–2, 105, 109, 111, 135, 137, 201, 262, 269, 285; beliefs, 328–9, 375–6, 378–9; Blood Song, 323; cattle (importance of), 340–1; cattle-raiding, 323–4, 326–7, 345; character, 324; circumcision, 320–3, 327, 328; Creation myth, 375–6; death among, 356; diet, 323, 326, 340–1; endurance, 323; Eunoto ceremony, 327–9; fighting with a Samurai sword, 162; greeting, 236; huts, 193, 340, 341; killing a rhino, 294–5; lion hunts, 326–7; migrations, 231; moran, 315, 323–4, and their customs, 326–9; narcotic “soup”, 327, 328, 329; refusal to learn to swim, 324; ritual scars, 328; sun and moon legend, 378–9; war dance, 38, 77; war costume, 77
Maasai Mara (game reserve), 269; (plains), 232
Maasailand, 30, 162
Macdonald, Captain J. R. L., 132, 133; Soldiering and Surveying in British East Africa, 133, 136
Machakos, 54, 71, 123, 135
Mackinder, Halford, 38; “A Journey to the Summit of Mount Kenya, British East Africa”, The Geographical Journal, 39
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