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

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Location of Western Province in Kenya.

Luhya people

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The Luhya (also known as Abaluyia or Luyia) comprise a number of Bantu ethnic groups native to western Kenya.

The Luhya (also known as Abaluyia or Luyia) comprise a number of Bantu ethnic groups native to western Kenya.

Location of Western Province in Kenya.
The four traditional districts of Western Province, Kenya.
Luhya children
Moody Awori
Mukhisa Kituyi
Ayisi Makatiani
McDonald Mariga
Hilary Ng'weno
Esau Khamati Oriedo
Dr. Blasio Vincent Oriedo
Amos Wako
Michael Wamalwa
Victor Wanyama
Miriam Were
Wycliffe Oparanya Governor of Kakamega County
Judy Wakhungu, Kenyan Ambassador to France
Eric Edward Khasakhala
Phyllis Omido, Kenyan environmental activist.
Moses Wetangula, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Bungoma Senator.
Clifton Miheso, Kenyan Footballer
Eugene Wamalwa, Cabinet Secretary of Devolution
Musalia Mudavadi

Western Kenya is one of the most densely populated parts of Kenya.

Turkana mother preparing a meal.

Turkana people

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Turkana mother preparing a meal.
Traditional Turkana dance being presented by local schoolchildren.
Ostrich feather caps are worn as the ceremonial headress.
Woman in everyday turkana clothing.
Child standing in household garden.
Turkana women pound palm nuts to remove husks. Inner nut is consumed as food.
Turkana men roasting a goat as part of a communal dinner.
Wooden stool used by Turkana men. Carved from solid wood and conditioned with tobacco juice.
Tightly woven basket produced by the Turkana for everyday use.
Wristknife worn by Turkana men. Can be used on and off wrist for fighting and utility purposes.
Demonstration of wristknife use.

The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana County in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and Samburu people to the south, Uganda to the west, and South Sudan and Ethiopia to the north.

Nyeri

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Nyeri was the headquarters of Kenya's former Central Province, and is now the largest city in, and new headquarters of the new Nyeri County (click to enlarge map).
Dedan Kimathi University of Technology
Nairobi-Nyeri highway
Peacock at Outspan Hotel, Nyeri
Lt.-Gen. Lord Baden-Powell's Grave

Nyeri is a town situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya.

Kenya People's Union

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The Kenya People's Union (KPU) was a socialist political party in Kenya led by Oginga Odinga.

Malindi

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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama meeting with the King of Malindi in 1498. The Portuguese Empire ruled Malindi from 1500 to 1630.
A view of the old town of Malindi
Close to Robinson Island Kenya north of Malindi
Sunrise over the Indian Ocean at Malindi
Beach close to Malindi
Sunset with boats in Malindi

Malindi is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Sabaki River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.

Chalbi Desert

Chalbi Desert

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Chalbi Desert
Chalbi Desert Satellite
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The Chalbi Desert is a small desert in northern Kenya near the border with Ethiopia.

Kikuyu language

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Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Gĩkũyũ (Agĩkũyũ) of Kenya.

Lake Bogoria, one of the main lakes in the Great Rift Valley.

Great Rift Valley, Kenya

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Lake Bogoria, one of the main lakes in the Great Rift Valley.
Lake Bogoria
Mount Longonot
View of Uganda from Cherubei Village, Kenya
Main volcanoes and lakes in the rift valley
East African Rift Valley, Kenya ISS 2012
Lake Bogoria is a caustic cauldron fringed by geysers and populated by over a million flamingos.
Luhya children at Endebess, Kenya
Lake Baringo, August 1999
Sketch by John Walter Gregory from his expedition to East Africa in 1892-3. "[Mount] Kenya from the Kapte Plains west of Machakos"
The Great Rift Valley from near Eldoret, Kenya in the fall of 2006
An adult purple heron with chicks on a nest at Lake Baringo
An African fish eagle about to catch a fish in Lake Naivasha

The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south.

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.

The branches of the Nilo-Saharan languages.

Nilo-Saharan languages

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The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.

The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by some 50–60 million people, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet.

The branches of the Nilo-Saharan languages.
Starostin's "Macro-Sudanic" in purple, surrounding language families shown as well.

Maasai (1.0 million). Spoken by the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania, one of the most well-known African peoples internationally.