The Agikuyu did not consider a young unmarried girl’s breasts as 'private parts '. Any girl was at liberty to remove the top anytime apart from when she was in the presence of her father or his riika.
A married woman would not deliberately expose her breast but there was no taboo about it.
On the other hand, thighs were considered private parts and a mature girl would only expose them during dancing. A married woman would never expose her thighs. It was a taboo for a nyakinyua to expose her thighs even by accident.
Nice thigh (fat ones) were regarded highly and the bearers of these would be very proud and sometimes disregard or look down upon suitors. Such a girl would be warned that the fleshy thigh will disappear when she grows older.
This is the origin of the proverb ciero ni uimbo
In full it is ciero ni uimbo ni cimbukaga.
This proverb has the same meaning with kamau mweru ni airaga.
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Mbisha ya nyonyo sina
That chaos is what is making some of us stay around, only that it shouldn’t be tribal. It seems mtu wa turedio is affliated to a certain party, if you comment negatively inachomolewa kama hio mbisha
