Kikuyu

Kikuyu is a municipality in Kiambu County, Kenya, about 20 kilometres northwest of central Nairobi, which grew from a settlement of colonial missionaries. It takes its name from the Kikuyu people, the major ethnic group that settled the area. The town is reached by a dual carriageway and the Southern Bypass and has a station on the Mombasa to Malaba railway line, and its jurisdiction includes the Ondiri Wetland, the source of the Nairobi River. The Scottish missionary David Clement Scott arrived in 1901 and bought an estate of 3,000 acres here, and an interdenominational missionary conference held in the town in June 1913 provoked the so-called Kikuyu controversy among Anglican churches. The 2019 population was 323,881.