A report on Kenya

The Turkana boy, a 1.6-million-year-old hominid fossil belonging to Homo erectus.
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.
British East Africa in 1909
The Kenya–Uganda Railway near Mombasa, about 1899.
A statue of Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader with the Mau Mau who fought against the British colonial system in the 1950s.
The first president and founding father of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.
Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's second President, and George W. Bush, 2001
Uhuru Kenyatta in 2014.
A map of Kenya.
A Köppen climate classification map of Kenya.
Kenya's third president, Mwai Kibaki
The Supreme Court of Kenya building.
President Barack Obama in Nairobi, July 2015
Emblem of the Kenya Defence Forces
Kenya's 47 counties.
A proportional representation of Kenya exports, 2019
Kenya, Trends in the Human Development Index 1970–2010.
Amboseli National Park
Tsavo East National Park
Tea farm near Kericho, Kericho County.
Agricultural countryside in Kenya
The Kenya Commercial Bank office at KENCOM House (right) in Nairobi.
Workers at Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant
The official logo of Vision 2030.
Lake Turkana borders Turkana County
Lions Family Portrait Masai Mara
Maasai people. The Maasai live in both Kenya and Tanzania.
Child labour in Kenya
A Bantu Kikuyu woman in traditional attire
Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Cathedral in Mombasa.
Outpatient Department of AIC Kapsowar Hospital in Kapsowar.
Table showing different grades of clinical officers, medical officers, and medical practitioners in Kenya's public service
School children in a classroom.
An MSc student at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.
A Maasai girl at school.
Kenyan boys and girls performing a traditional dance
Nation Media House, which hosts the Nation Media Group
Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
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

Country in Eastern Africa.

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Savanna Pastoral Neolithic

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Collection of ancient societies that appeared in the Rift Valley of East Africa and surrounding areas during a time period known as the Pastoral Neolithic.

Collection of ancient societies that appeared in the Rift Valley of East Africa and surrounding areas during a time period known as the Pastoral Neolithic.

Through a series of migrations from Horn of Africa, these early Cushitic-speaking pastoralists brought cattle and caprines southward from the Sudan and/or Ethiopia into northern Kenya, probably using donkeys for transportation.

William Ruto

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Kenyan politician currently serving as The Opposition Leader of Kenya since April 2013.

Kenyan politician currently serving as The Opposition Leader of Kenya since April 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (center) walks with Kenyan Minister of Agriculture William Ruto (left) and Kenyan environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai (right) during a tour of the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) near Nairobi, Kenya 5 August 2009.
Ruto at the 54th Regular Session of the IAEA General Conference

Ruto has been involved in many reported land grabbing controversies in Kenya including several Kenyan state corporations embroiled in endless litigation over the land grabs.

The main slave routes in medieval Africa

Indian Ocean slave trade

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Multi-directional slave trade and has changed over time.

Multi-directional slave trade and has changed over time.

The main slave routes in medieval Africa
Arab-Swahili slave traders and their captives along the Ruvuma River in Mozambique.
A Zanj slave gang in Zanzibar (1889)

These traders captured Bantu peoples (Zanj) from the interior in the present-day lands of Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania and brought them to the coast.

Map of Africa by John Thomson, 1813. Much of the continent is simply labeled "unknown parts". The map still includes Ptolemy's Mountains of the Moon, which have since been credited to ranges varying from the Rwenzori to Kilimanjaro to the peaks of Ethiopia at the head of the Blue Nile.

European exploration of Africa

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The geography of North Africa has been reasonably well known among Europeans since classical antiquity in Greco-Roman geography.

The geography of North Africa has been reasonably well known among Europeans since classical antiquity in Greco-Roman geography.

Map of Africa by John Thomson, 1813. Much of the continent is simply labeled "unknown parts". The map still includes Ptolemy's Mountains of the Moon, which have since been credited to ranges varying from the Rwenzori to Kilimanjaro to the peaks of Ethiopia at the head of the Blue Nile.
reconstruction of Hecataeus' map of the world
Roman expeditions to Sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile river
Prince Henry of Portugal in 15th century triptych of St. Vincent, by Nuno Gonçalves
Map of Western Africa by Lázaro Luis (1563). The large castle in West Africa represents the São Jorge da Mina (Elmina castle) fortified factory.
17th-century crucifix, copper alloy, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Queen Nzinga in peace negotiations with the Portuguese governor in Luanda, 1657
Map of Fort James (Gambia), the first English possession in Africa
Routes of European explorers in Africa to 1853
Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913
Portuguese map of western Africa, 1571
Heinrich Barth approaching Timbuktu in 1853
Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens in 1883
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Then he sailed northward, making land at Quelimane (Mozambique) and Mombasa, where he found Chinese traders, and Malindi (both in modern Kenya).

Blue wildebeest

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Large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest.

Large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest.

A skeleton photographed at the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP, São Paulo, Brazil
A close-up of the horns
Plains zebra and blue wildebeest grazing at Ngorongoro Crater
Two male blue wildebeest fighting for dominance
A female and her calf
Blue wildebeest inhabit places where water is available
Blue wildebeest at Etosha National Park
Taxidermied lion and blue wildebeest, Namibia

The blue wildebeest is native to Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Mahamoud Mohamed

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General Mohamud Haji Mohamed Barrow (Maxamuud Maxamed) is a former Kenyan military commander, and was Chief of General Staff of the Kenyan military and Commander Kenya Army.

Plenary Chamber of the Senate of Kenya, Nairobi in 2020

Senate of Kenya

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Upper house of the Parliament of Kenya.

Upper house of the Parliament of Kenya.

Plenary Chamber of the Senate of Kenya, Nairobi in 2020

The 2013 Kenya Senate elections took place on 4 March 2013.

A map showing the linguistic tree of Afroasiatic languages (Ehret 2006)

Afroasiatic languages

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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara/Sahel.

The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara/Sahel.

A map showing the linguistic tree of Afroasiatic languages (Ehret 2006)
Some linguists' proposals for grouping within Afroasiatic
The Afroasiatic Hamar people of Ethiopia are suggested to have preserved the original pastoralist lifestyle of the Proto-Afroasiatic-speaking peoples of Northeast Africa.
Distribution of the Afroasiatic/Hamito-Semitic languages in Africa
Proposed migration and expansion routes of the Afroasiatic languages according to the indigenous African (Red Sea) origin model.

Oromo (Cushitic), spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya by around 34 million people.

Imperial British East Africa Company

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Commercial association founded to develop African trade in the areas controlled by the British Empire.

Commercial association founded to develop African trade in the areas controlled by the British Empire.

1892 Punch cartoon depicting the Uganda conflict as a white elephant for the British East Africa Company.

The territory was then divided to form the Uganda Protectorate in 1894 and East Africa Protectorate (later Kenya) in 1895.

United Nations

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Intergovernmental organization whose purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Intergovernmental organization whose purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

Members of the United Nations
1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states
The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue
Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until his death in 1961.
Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006
Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet general secretary, addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988
Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, demonstrates a vial with alleged Iraq chemical weapon probes to the UN Security Council on Iraq war hearings, 5 February 2003
Current secretary-general, António Guterres
The ICJ ruled that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law.
Under Sukarno, Indonesia became the first and only country to leave the United Nations.
A Nepalese soldier on a peacekeeping deployment providing security at a rice distribution site in Haiti during 2010
The UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus was established in 1974 following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949
Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme reading the news that smallpox has been globally eradicated in 1980
In Jordan, UNHCR remains responsible for the Syrian refugees and the Zaatari refugee camp.
The 2001 Nobel Peace Prize to the UN—diploma in the lobby of the UN Headquarters in New York City
Marking of the UN's 70th anniversary – Budapest, 2015

The Security Council is made up of fifteen member states, consisting of five permanent members—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly: Albania (term ends 2023), Brazil (2023), Gabon (2023), Ghana (2023), India (2022), Ireland (2022), Kenya (2022), Mexico (2022), Norway (2022), and the United Arab Emirates (2023).