Kikuyu

Kikuyu is a city in Kiambu County, Kenya, which grew from a agreement of colonial missionaries. The metropolis is placed approximately 20 km northwest of principal Nairobi. It is ready 20 mins from Nairobi via a number of routes, consisting of a dual carriage avenue, and has a railway station on the Mombasa Malaba Railway Line. The metropolis is called after the Kikuyu human beings, the predominant ethnicity that settled within the region. As of 2009 the total population is 233,231. Due to its geology and rich soil texture, the leader sports are cattle and crop farming.

With the latest crowning glory of the Southern Bypass that connects Mombasa to Nairobi via Kikuyu, the town is poised for more boom as is the most effective metropolis at the Bypass. Kikuyu hosts a Sub-County Administration that is the administrative division in Kiambu County. The metropolis has a few British colonial records links, just like the Right Reverend Musa Gitau, an African believer in democracy who led a number of the first Christian faithful at some point of colonial instances. He lived and labored inside the metropolis as a reverend and in his honour faculties had been named after him.