ABSTRACT
When the Kikuyu Central Association, or K .C .A ., as it was known (and under which term I shall refer to it in this book), came into existence in 1922, with the expressed intention of finding a way to recover the ‘lost lands’ of the Kikuyu, it was an easy matter to gather together a large following, drawn particularly from the many members of the land owning families who then had no land that they could call their own.
