Children Singing Choruses, Kenya, ca.1905-ca.1940

Photograph of a group of children singing songs. The children are out doors and are sitting in a tightly packed group. Many are holding their hands up in the air. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenya’s most populous ethnic group.