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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View of Mara River

Maasai Mara

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View of Mara River
Sunrise over Maasai Mara National Reserve
Sekenani Gate
A hot air balloon safari

Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

Countryside at Tsavo, early 1950s

Tsavo

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Countryside at Tsavo, early 1950s

Tsavo is a region of Kenya located at the crossing of the Uganda Railway over the Tsavo River, close to where it meets the Athi-Galana-Sabaki River.

National Rainbow Coalition

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The National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) is a political party in Kenya.

Kisumu massacre

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The Kisumu massacre occurred when the presidential guard and police forces shot and killed several civilians in Kisumu Town, the capital of Nyanza Province in Kenya.

First Edition (UK)

Out of Africa

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Memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.

Memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.

First Edition (UK)
First Edition (UK)

The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa.

George Saitoti

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Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.

Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.

Kenya Poverty Index by Constituency 2009
British Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham meeting George Saitoti, the Kenyan Minister of State for Provincial Administration & Internal Security in London, 21 November 2011
British Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham meeting the Acting Kenyan Foreign Minister Hon Prof George Saitoti in London, 10 February 2011

Upon his graduation, Saitoti returned to Kenya in 1972, commencing a career as a Mathematics lecturer at the University of Nairobi.

Nyiri map

Nyiri Desert

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Nyiri map

Nyiri Desert, also called The Nyika, Taru Desert, Taru desert, is a desert in southern Kenya.

The Tsavo Man-Eaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois

Tsavo Man-Eaters

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The Tsavo Man-Eaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois
Tsavo Lion skulls on display at the Field Museum in Chicago

The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of dozens of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898.

Traditional area inhabited by the Somali ethnic group

Somalis

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East Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.

East Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.

Traditional area inhabited by the Somali ethnic group
Traditional area inhabited by the Somali ethnic group
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Ruins of the Adal Sultanate in Zeila, a kingdom led in the 16th century by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (Ahmed Gurey).
The Citadel of Gondershe was an important site in the medieval Ajuran Empire.
The Ifat Sultanate's realm in the 14th century.
Illustration of Berbera, 1884
Dervish commander Haji Sudi on the left with his brother in-law Duale Idres. Aden, 1892.
Ali Yusuf Kenadid, 2nd Sultan of the Hobyo Sultanate.
Sultan Abdillahi Deria, a prominent Grand Sultan of British Somaliland of the delegation sent from British Somaliland Protectorate to the British government in London to appeal for the return of Haud Reserve Area, a territory ceded by the British to Ethiopia in 1954.
Mahmoud Harbi, a Somali politician who campaigned for French Somalia to join a united Somali state.
A traditional Somali wedding basket.
The Mosque of Islamic Solidarity in Mogadishu is the largest masjid in the Horn region.
Old Somali stone tablet: After Somali had lost its ancient writing script, Somali scholars over the following centuries developed a writing system known as Wadaad writing to transcribe the language.
Somali language books on display.
Somali woman shows traditional incense during an event to showcase traditional Somali culture
Somali woman building a Somali aqal or buul
Somali singer Saado Ali Warsame.
Somali film producer and director Ali Said Hassan.
A Somali woman with kohl eyes.
Somali women knitting
Mo Farah the most decorated athlete in British athletics history
Somali man wearing a macawis sarong.
Somali woman in traditional Guntino.
Somali woman wearing a Somali flag dress.
Women from Fafan village in the Somali Regional State offering camel milk.
Award-winning author Nadifa Mohamed.
Federal legislator Muna Khalif chairing a political workshop.
Mohamed Osman Jawari, speaker of the Federal Parliament.
A Somali-owned grocery in Columbus, Ohio.
Somali women at a political function in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
ONLF separatist rebels fighting for the right to self-determination for Somalis in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
Sign on Somali Road in the London Borough of Camden.
A Somali high school student in Cairo, Egypt.
Economist Abdusalam H. Omer.
Journalist Rageh Omaar.
Ilhan Omar, the first Somali elected to the United States Congress.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
International lawyer Amina Mohamed.
A Somali schoolgirl.
Genetic components present in select Cushitic populations
Genetic components present in select Cushitic/HOA populations (Hollfelder, Nina et al., 2017)
A young Somali man.
Pioneering Somali Studies scholar, Osman Yusuf Kenadid.
Geographic location of Somali clans
Somali nomad belonging to the Habr Awal clan
Notable leaders and elders of the Biimaal clan in Merca

Ethnic Somalis are principally concentrated in Somalia (around 8.8 million), Somaliland (5.7 million), Ethiopia (11.7 million), Kenya (2.8 million), and Djibouti (534,000).

Zanzibar

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Insular semi-autonomous state which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

Insular semi-autonomous state which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.

The castle in Zanzibar
Omani Sultan of Zanzibar
Zanzibari slave trader Tippu Tip
The Harem and Tower Harbour of Zanzibar (p.234), London Missionary Society
A Zanj slave gang in Zanzibar (1889)
The post office in Zanzibar was initially managed by the postal service of British India. Before dedicated Zanzibar stamps could be manufactured, Indian stamps were locally overprinted. This item is from a pre-printed Indian envelope or postcard, overprinted at the offices of the Zanzibar Gazette, which had the only printing press in the territory.
A street scene in Zanzibar during the early 20th century
President Abeid Karume
A street scene in Stone Town
Produce vendors at a market
The main mosque and Christ Church Anglican cathedral in Stone Town
Hindu temple in Stone Town
12 January 2004: President Karume of Zanzibar enters Amani Stadium for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Zanzibar's 1964 revolution.
An aerial view of Stone Town in Zanzibar
A dolphin in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Zanzibar
Papilio demodocus in Zanzibar, Nungwi
Prophylaxis poster in Zanzibar, 2008
Seaweed farming in Jambiani
Aquaculture of red algae (Eucheuma), Jambiani
Tourism is one of the main sectors of the economy.
Market stall in Zanzibar's Stone Town
Tourists in boat chasing dolphins in the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar
A narrow pedestrian alleyway in Stone Town, Zanzibar
A train operating on the railway between Bububu and Stone Town in Zanzibar, circa 1905
Several times a day fast ferry services between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar
Zanzibar Harbour
Azam Sealink1 ferry
Zanzibar Airport Terminal I
A view of the clock tower in House of Wonders through Islamic styled door in the Stone City
ZIFF, 2013
Institute of Marine Sciences, UDSM
Aerial view of Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar
Stone Town
Stone Town with Sultan's Palace
House of Wonders undergoing refurbishment
Cloves have played a significant role in Zanzibar's historic economy.
The red colobus of Zanzibar (Procolobus kirkii), taken at Jozani Fores
Zanzibar East Coast beach
Red-knobbed starfish (Protoreaster linckii) on the beach in Nungwi, northern Zanzibar
A Zanzibar beach
Cannons overlooking the water at Forodhani Gardens park, in Stone Town
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In October 1886, a British-German border commission established the Zanj as a 10 nmi strip along most of the African Great Lakes region's coast, an area stretching from Cape Delgado (now in Mozambique) to Kipini (now in Kenya), including Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.