The Kikuyu are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya, making them Kenya's largest ethnic group.
Kikuyu people
Kikuyu man from 1910
Kikuyu woman as painted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela in 1909
Portrait of Kenosua by Gallen-Kallela, 1909–1910
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to 24 countries spread over a vast area from Central Africa to Southeast Africa and into Southern Africa.
Reconstructing the dispersal of Bantu-speaking populations.
Unmarried Zulu women in Southern Africa