Kikuyu

The Kĩkũyũ (otherwise spelled Gĩkũyũ) ethnic group is Kenya's most populous ethnic group. They total more than 4.5 million which is about 20% of Kenya's total population. They cultivate the fertile central highlands, sometimes known as Kikuyuland, and part of the lush Great Rift Valley.

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Although uncertain, ethnologists believe the Kĩkũyũ came to Kenya from the north and west and settled in present-day Kenya in the 1500s. They were originally hunter-gatherers but also kept livestocks with which they migrated in the course of the seasons to different parts of the country (nomadic pastoralists). And they also derived from a local river's spawning fish.