Murang'a people mko? A place called Kafati on Thika-Kenol road was named after the first ironsheet-roofed structure owned by an ancestor called Job Muchuchu. Those who like it refer to it as Kafati ka Jofu.

Ituramiro = the story I have heard, is it is at the of a steep hill. Hence 'kukaa vibaya'

The people of Kirinyaga/Embu are the Luo's of Central province - thus the penchant to Anglicize names like, Difatha's, Kutus, Runyenjes, Siakago etc

Karatina - from the Muratina tree, one used to stand where the market now is.

Ndenderu is a slippery place.

Many of the names in the northern part of the Nyeri Valley and Nyandarua are from Maasai, specifically Samburu, who occupied the area before the Maa civil war. Thus names like Nyeri, Mweiga, Ol Kalou, Nyahururu, Maragema, Njororoko etc

While we are at it, who can tell me where the following names came from:
- Gatina, Rodkopany, Padpieri, Iveti, Gathatia ng'ondu

the Samburu, though Maa speakers, are a different entity to the Maasai, the section that was annihilated was the Ilaikipiak clan which was very powerful but warlike and quarrelsome, apparently the remnants of this clan were assimilated particularly by the Nyeri Kikuyu (hence their famed 'meaness') and to lesser extent some Ameru clans

1.Thimbigua-A tank was built in the area andwas referred to as "The big one)
2.Sotik- a mzungu insulted a local " you are so thick"
3.Kibiingoti-A road sign read "keep off the goats"
4.Endebess-End of the base
5.Bureti-"Pure tea"
6.Belgut-"Very good"
7.Kilifi-"Cliff"
8.Lukenya-"Look at Kenya"
9.Kariobangi="carry your bags"
10.Kapropita="Corporal peter"