This is a fascinating account of a book that unravels facts of historical origin of the Ameru of Kenya, a subject of inquiry and one not properly understood by many scholars. In that connection, the book captures in a special way the rise of the community's traditional government, the Njuri-Ncheke of the Meru people of Kenya. In a systematic way, the author examines the institution's formation, its principles and norms up too the present time. These are particulars mainly unknown to the indigenous community itself; leave alone the keen historian of Meru anthropology.