
The town has become known as the Kikuyu Heartland because it is close to Mugeka, the Mukuruwe wa Gathanga (Garden of Eden of the Kikuyu) - which is an importantly place in Kikuyu mithology.The legend is that it was here that God found nine husbands under a fig tree for the nine Gikuyu and Mumbi daughters, who in mythology are the ancestors of all Kikuyu. These nine became the forefathers of the nine Kikuyu clans.