A report on Kenya and Tanzania

The Turkana boy, a 1.6-million-year-old hominid fossil belonging to Homo erectus.
A 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool discovered at Olduvai Gorge and on display at the British Museum.
A traditional Swahili carved wooden door in Lamu.
Portuguese presence in Kenya lasted from 1498 until 1730. Mombasa was under Portuguese rule from 1593 to 1698 and again from 1728 to 1729.
A 1572 depiction of the portuguese city of Kilwa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
British East Africa in 1909
The Kenya–Uganda Railway near Mombasa, about 1899.
Battle during the Maji Maji Rebellion against German colonial rule in 1905.
A statue of Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader with the Mau Mau who fought against the British colonial system in the 1950s.
The Arusha Declaration Monument
The first president and founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.
Wildebeest migration in the Serengeti
Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's second President, and George W. Bush, 2001
Tanzania map of Köppen climate classification
Uhuru Kenyatta in 2014.
The Masai giraffe is Tanzania's national animal
A map of Kenya.
The semi-autonomous Zanzibar Archipelago
A Köppen climate classification map of Kenya.
Regions of Tanzania
Kenya's third president, Mwai Kibaki
Tanzanian ambassador to Russia Jaka Mwambi presenting his credentials to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
The Supreme Court of Kenya building.
Tanzanian Embassy in West End, Washington, D.C., USA
President Barack Obama in Nairobi, July 2015
FIB Tanzanian special forces during training
Emblem of the Kenya Defence Forces
A proportional representation of Tanzania exports, 2019
Kenya's 47 counties.
Historical development of real GDP per capita in Tanzania, since 1950
A proportional representation of Kenya exports, 2019
Tea fields in Tukuyu
Kenya, Trends in the Human Development Index 1970–2010.
Nyerere Bridge in Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam
Amboseli National Park
The snowcapped Uhuru Peak
Tsavo East National Park
One of the main trunk roads
Tea farm near Kericho, Kericho County.
Zanzibar harbour
Agricultural countryside in Kenya
Domestic expenditure on research in Southern Africa as a percentage of GDP, 2012 or closest year. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 20.3
The Kenya Commercial Bank office at KENCOM House (right) in Nairobi.
A Tanzanian woman cooks Pilau rice dish wearing traditional Kanga.
Workers at Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant
Farmers using a rice harvester to harvest rice in Igunga District, Tanzania
The official logo of Vision 2030.
Example of a World Food Programme parcel
Lake Turkana borders Turkana County
Researchers (HC) in Southern Africa per million inhabitants, 2013 or closest year
Lions Family Portrait Masai Mara
Scientific publications per million inhabitants in SADC countries in 2014. Source: UNESCO Science Report (2015), data from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded
Maasai people. The Maasai live in both Kenya and Tanzania.
The Hadza live as hunter-gatherers.
Child labour in Kenya
A carved door with Arabic calligraphy in Zanzibar
A Bantu Kikuyu woman in traditional attire
Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam
Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Cathedral in Mombasa.
Development of life expectancy
Outpatient Department of AIC Kapsowar Hospital in Kapsowar.
Tanzanian woman harvest tea leaves
Table showing different grades of clinical officers, medical officers, and medical practitioners in Kenya's public service
Judith Wambura (Lady Jaydee) is a popular Bongo Flava recording singer.
School children in a classroom.
A Tingatinga painting
An MSc student at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.
National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
A Maasai girl at school.
St Joseph's Catholic cathedral, Zanzibar
Kenyan boys and girls performing a traditional dance
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha
Nation Media House, which hosts the Nation Media Group
East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha
Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Tanzanian Ngoma group
Popular Kenyan musician Jua Cali.
Jepkosgei Kipyego and Jepkemoi Cheruiyot at the 2012 London Olympics
Kenyan Olympic and world record holder in the 800 meters, David Rudisha.
Ugali and sukuma wiki, staples of Kenyan cuisine

It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

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Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast.

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An Umbrella thorn silhouetted by the setting sun near Seronera Camp.

Serengeti

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An Umbrella thorn silhouetted by the setting sun near Seronera Camp.
Map of Tanzania showing the country's national parks, including the Serengeti National Park.
Migrating wildebeest.
Wildebeest crossing the river during the Serengeti migration.
River and the Serengeti plains.
Giraffes in Eastern Serengeti.
Lioness on a kopje, or rock outcropping.

The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning northern Tanzania.

Similarly, dik-diks eat the lowest leaves of a tree, impalas eat the leaves that are higher up, and giraffes eat leaves that are even higher.The governments of Tanzania and Kenya maintain a number of protected areas, including national parks, conservation areas, and game reserves, that give legal protection to over 80 percent of the Serengeti.

Maasai people

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Maasai man
Maasai warriors in German East Africa, c. 1906–1918
Maasai warriors confronting a spotted hyena, a common livestock predator, as photographed in In Wildest Africa (1907)
Maasai people and huts with enkang barrier in foreground - eastern Serengeti, 2006
Maasai school in Tanzania
Maasai woman with stretched earlobes
Young Maasai warrior (a junior Moran) with headdress and markings
Maasai woman with short hair
Traditional jumping dance
A Maasai herdsman grazing his cattle inside the Ngorongoro crater, Tanzania
Shelter covered in cattle dung for waterproofing
A Maasai woman wearing her finest clothes
Maasai women repairing a house in Maasai Mara (1996)
Maasai wearing protective masks during COVID-19 pandemic.
Maasai driving a motorcycle (2014)

The Maasai (Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Kilwa Sultanate

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Principal cities of East Africa, c. 1500. The Kilwa Sultanate held overlordship from Cape Correntes in the south to Malindi in the north.

The Kilwa Sultanate was a sultanate, centered at Kilwa (an island off modern-day, Kilwa District in Lindi Region of Tanzania), whose authority, at its height, stretched over the entire length of the Swahili Coast.

Kilwan traders from the coast encouraged the development of market towns in the Bantu-dominated highlands of what are now Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Nilotic languages

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The Nilotic languages are a group of related languages spoken across a wide area between South Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples.

Nilotic language speakers live in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Wildebeest

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Wildebeest, also called gnu ( or ), are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa.

Wildebeest, also called gnu ( or ), are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa.

Bag made with wildebeest skin
Taxidermied Lion and Blue Wildebeest, Namibia
The wildebeest is the mascot of the free software project GNU.

Its range includes Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini and Angola.

Taarab performance by Kithara Orchestra of Zanzibar performing in Paris, France

Taarab

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Taarab performance by Kithara Orchestra of Zanzibar performing in Paris, France

Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya.

Presidential system

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Form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.

Form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.

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