Kikuyu, Embu and Meru locked into the reserve system

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• Being Kikuyu in Meru: Challenging the Tribal Geography of Colonial Kenya whole source

  Parsons explains the colonial reserve system, Meru Reserve and the assumption that each tribe had a fixed homeland.

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• What Was the Kenya Emergency? whole source

  IWM describes Gikuyu displacement into reserves and the later Kikuyu/Embu/Meru struggle over land and colonial rule.

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• The conquest of central Kenya: the punitive expeditions step 20
• Timau: Mount Kenya settler farms, flowers, and the Laikipia edge step 5
• Tribalism as a colonial tool: how colonial rule hardened Kenya's divisions step 33

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