is semi-arid, and is therefore considered a hardship area. Before the collapse of the pyrethrum industry in Kenya, pyrethrum was a major cash crop in Ndeiya. Poultry farming has been carried out, though not to a large scale. Subsistence farming is common and the unemployment level is high. Public primary schools in Ndeiya These are the primary schools in Thigio, Ndeiya. Kĩrĩrĩ, Gĩtutha, Tutu, Gatũũra, Thigio, Kĩawanda, Makutano, Nderu, Tiekunu, Bibirioni, Rwambũri, Nyataragi. Mau Mau Mass Graves Ndeiya home to mass graves of victims of the torturous actions of the British officers during the Mau Mau uprising which was fighting for Kenya's independence and land rights for Africans. Ndeiya and Thigio are mentioned in Caroline Elkins' books Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya and Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag as imprisonment camps where suspects were brutally tortured, sexually abused, starved, and over-worked and killed as part of the suppression efforts against the fight for independence. Though they have not been gazetted as part of the sites and monuments in Kenya or recognized as centres of national or historical interests, the mass graves continue to attract history tourists and researchers. The graves are located on private land whose owners are prevented from farming or construction by laws and cultural taboos that prohibit exhumation of bodies and disturbance of grave sites. There have been proposals and promises to compensate and relocated the landowners in exchange for setting up memorial sites. References Central Province (Kenya) Kiambu County