Kikuyu Central Association
- Kikuyu Central Association
The Kikuyu Central Association (KCA) lead by James Beauttah and Joseph Kang'ethe was a political organisation in colonial Kenya formed in 1924/5 to act on behalf of the Kky community by presenting their concerns to the British government. One of its greatest grievances was the loss by African farmers of the most productive land to the British settlers. Most members of the organisation were from the Kky tribe.
KCA was formed after the colonial government banned the earlier Young Kikuyu Association founded by Henry Thuku and the East African Association. Jomo Kenyatta, later the first president of Kenya, joined it to become its General Secretary in 1927.
The Kikuyu Central Association was banned in 1940 when World War II reached East Africa. Some fighters of the later Mau-Mau still understood their struggle as continuation of KCA and even called themselves KCA.
The end of World War II, however, saw the new type of African organisation that went beyond tribal boundaries with the rise of the Kenyan African Union that later was to become KANU.
External links
* [http://www.colony-info.de/e/texte/616.html The reason behind KCA]
* [http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004688.html Another article on KCA]
* [http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/tribes/kikuyu/history2.htm]
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