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Dr Joan Nyanyuki on Creating Advocacy for Children and Human Rights on the Continent
Kirinyaga County, is located at the foothills of Mount Kenya. A scared focal point for the Agikuyu people the mountain was known as Kirinyaga and the name change happened when the word was lost in translation.
When from a far off, the first Europeans saw the snowy peaks straddling the Equator, the mountain was introduced to them as KayEnyA, by the Akamba. They pronounced it differently from the Agikuyu, to whom it is home. Fast Forward to British Colonial Rule and standing at 3,835m high, the easily identifiable landmark, gave rise to the name of the land now known as Kenya.
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