International Journal of Culture and History ISSN 2332-5518 2019, Vol. 6, No. 1 Colonialism and the Agikuyu Women Indigenous Knowledge Systems on Food Crop Production in Kiambu Kenya 1902-1918 Martha Wanjiru Muraya (Corresponding Author) Department of Humanities, Chuka University P.O Box 109-60400, Chuka, Kenya Tel: 254-723-628-518 E-mail:
[email protected] Geofrey King’ori Gathungu Department of Plant Sciences, Chuka University P.O Box 109-60400, Chuka, Kenya E-mail:
[email protected] Lazarus Ngari Kinyua Department of History, Archaeology and Political Studies, Kenyatta University P.O Box 43844, Nairobi, Kenya E-mail:
[email protected] Received: May 8, 2019 Accepted: June 11, 2019 Published: June 25, 2019 doi:10.5296/ijch.v6i1.14975 URL: https://doi.org /10.5296/ijch.v6i1.14975 Abstract The introduction colonial capitalist economic policies and practices such as land alienation, forced labour and commercial crop production acted as a major catalyst of change on the existing African indigenous subsistence production especially the Agikuyu Women’s Indigenous Knowledge System (AWIKS). This research paper focused on examining the effects of European colonialism on the AWIKS on food crop production from 1902-1918. The study employed descriptive research design and historical trend analysis and it was done 16 International Journal of Culture and History ISSN 2332-5518 2019, Vol. 6, No. 1 in three sub-counties of Kiambu West, namely, Limuru, Lari and Kikuyu. Purposive and snowballing technique was used to get the respondents who were the bearers of the most relevant information. The main source of information was the corroboration of oral interviews, archival records analysis and secondary data.