Letter from Nanyuki: Facing Mt Kenya craze new cash cow for region

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua prays while facing Mt Kenya during a recent visit to the mountain. [Jeff Angote, Standard]

Facing Mt Kenya, a book written in 1938 by Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta, chronicles the traditions of the Agikiyu.

Its other competitors are The History of the Southern Kikuyu before 1903 by Louis Leakey published in 1977 and Godfrey Muriuki's History of the Kikuyu 1500-1900 published in 1974. The list could be longer.