DAWN Africa - Kenya Capital City Nairobi People Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages Religions http://www.dawnministries.org/regions/africa/countries/kenya/
LincOn.com-Travel:Africa:Kenya People. Ethnic groups Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11 Religions Protestant 38%, Roman Catholic 28%, indigenous beliefs 26%, Muslim 7 http://www.lincon.com/travel/africa/kenya.htm
Extractions: Kenya Travel Index Return to Previous Menu LincOn.com is in the process of developing travel information for more than 300 countries around the world. Basic statistical information is available on all countries, and select locations have specific related content. If you would like to add to our content (and get credit for it!), please contact Dave Broer with the information you would like to add/supply. All inquiries are welcome. Become part of our team! Kenya Geography [Top of Page] Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Somalia and Tanzania Geographic coordinates: 1 00 N, 38 00 E Map references: Africa Area:
Kenya - Countrywatch.com Key Data. Region africa. Population 32,499,100 July 2003. Luo, 13%. Kamba, 11%. kalenjin, 10%. Kisii, 6%. Roman Catholic, 28%. indigenous beliefs, 26%. Muslim, 7%. other, 1%. http://aol.countrywatch.com/aol_topic.asp?vCOUNTRY=89&SECTION=COVER&TOPIC=KEYDAT
Africa Adventure Travel | Kenya Country Information Capital City Nairobi (population 2,5 million). People Kikuyu; Luhya; Luo; kalenjin; Kamba; Kisii; Meru. Languages English, Swahili, indigenous. http://adventure-travel.tourism-africa.co.za/country-info/kenya.html
Extractions: home home overland tours camping trips ... overland general info destinations Botswana Kenya Malawi Mozambique ... enquiries On Africa's east coast, Kenya straddles the equator and shares a border with Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Its coast is lapped by the Indian Ocean and it shares the vast waters of Lake Victoria with its western and southern neighbours. The Rift Valley and Central Highlands area form the backbone of the country, and this is where Kenya's scenery is at its most spectacular. The humid coastal belt includes the Tana River estuary and a string of good beaches. Western Kenya takes in the fertile fringes of Lake Victoria and, with the southern part of the country, some prime wildlife parks. The vast, arid northen region is where Kenya is at its wildest and most untouched by the modern world. Kenya's climate varies enormously from place to place. The Rift Valley offers the most agreeable weather, while the arid bushlands and semi-desert regions can range from daytime highs of up to 40° Celsius to lows of about 20° Celsius at night. Western Kenya and the eastern coastal fringe are generally hot and humid year-round. FAST FACTS Full Country Name: Republic of Kenya Area: 583,000 sq km
Profile Of The Mukogodo People Of Kenya we know of following the indigenous San (Bushmen). followed by the Highland Nilotes (kalenjin Cluster), then Luo and related Uganda peoples still stretching up http://www.geocities.com/orvillejenkins/profiles/mukogodo.html
Extractions: Status Location : The Mukogodo live in the Mukogodo Forest of west central Kenya. They were originally an Eastern Cushite group, predating the Nilotes and Bantu in this area. There are no remaining speakers of the original language, called Yaaku. History : The Mukogodo represent a second wave of Cushite immigration into the Rift Valley area of East Africa. The earlier Southern Cushites were the first settlers we know of following the indigenous San (Bushmen). The San were here first before the time of Christ. Then came the Southern Cushites in the first millennium AD, then Eastern Cushites, followed by the Highland Nilotes (Kalenjin Cluster), then the early Bantu. Later came intermingled waves of Plains Nilotes (Maasai-Teso-Karamojong-Turkana), later Bantu (Logoli-Kuria-Ganda, etc.) and River-Lake Nilotes (Luo and related Uganda peoples still stretching up into the Waa River marshes in Sudan). Identity : Various old Cushite groups in the Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania have become affiliated with various Nilotic tribes as clients, mostly as a self-defense for their own preservation under the various waves of Nilotic migration into their ancestral area.
Kenya People - World66 People. Ethnic groups Kikuyu 22% Luhya 14% Luo 13% kalenjin 12% Kamba 11 Religions Protestant (including Anglican) 38% Roman Catholic 28% indigenous beliefs 26 http://www.world66.com/africa/kenya/people
Extractions: Kenya Sections Maps View Enlargement [edit this] This is no World66 image. It was found using an Internet search. more.. [Change image] [Upload image] Population: 28 337 071 (July 1998 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 44% (male 6 248 260; female 6 109 443) 15-64 years: 54% (male 7 609 631; female 7 607 810) 65 years and over: 2% (male 333 881; female 428 046) (July 1998 est.) Population growth rate: 1.71% (1998 est.) Birth rate: 31.68 births/1 000 population (1998 est.) Death rate: 14.19 deaths/1 000 population (1998 est.) Net migration rate: -0.35 migrant(s)/1 000 population (1998 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female (1998 est.) Infant mortality rate: 59.38 deaths/1 000 live births (1998 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 47.57 years male: 47.02 years female: 48.13 years (1998 est.) Total fertility rate: 4.07 children born/woman (1998 est.)
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN KENYA 1978-2001. violations of human rights in South africa if I were not being perpetrated by indigenous people, there are thirtyeight policemen witnessed a kalenjin raid on http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v5/v5i1a1.htm
Extractions: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN KENYA UNDER DANIEL ARAP MOI, 1978-2001 Korwa G. Adar and Isaac M Munyae INTRODUCTION Jomo Kenyatta, the founding president of Kenya, passed away in August 1978 after fourteen years as head of state. His successor, Daniel Arap Moi, served as Kenyattas vice-president from 1966 - 1978. During Kenyatta's presidency, the political realm was dominated by a small Kikuyu elite, the so-called Kiambu Mafia, from Kenyata's home district. This group undermined Kenyatta's nationalist and populist background, alienating other ethnic groups, as well as many non-conforming Kikuyus. Although Moi was loyal to Kenyatta, he was never accepted into Kenyatta's inner circle. He also came from a small communitythe Kalenjin. He was regarded by Kenyans to be the right candidate to steer the country towards a more accommodating human rights era, without ethnic dominance.
Land Of Africa Kikuyu 14% Luhya 13% Luo 12% kalenjin 11% Kamba 6 Religion Protestant 45% Roman Catholic 33% indigenous beliefs 10 slowly because of the Masai people who opposed http://www.landofafrica.ch/country.php?country=25
The Elliott School Of International Affairs | Special Lectures was a failed state and an indigenous Somali group up in Kenyas Rift Valley between the kalenjin and Kikuyu the combination of skepticism by key people in the http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/news/transcripts/africa.html
Extractions: April 27, 2002 Thank you for inviting me to make this opening address to the conference on Charting a New Course for Africa in the 21st Century. The organizers of this event stated in the announcement that many previous conferences on Africa have had no tangible results. Having attended some of these conferences over the last 40 years, I can attest that few of them have had any real impact. The organizers also emphasized that this is not just another forum to gather and converse about Africa; rather it is intended to encourage positive change. Let me be brutally frank. This conference will only make a difference if it encourages a significant number of you, the participants, to devote your lives, your career or at least a major part of your available time to the betterment of the continent of Africa. Any information you learn here today is nice, but it will not change anything unless you commit to do something about it. My challenge to you: are you ready to make that commitment? If not, I suggest you just settle in for a day of learning about Africa that may or may not be of use to you at some later date. But if you really want to change things, then listen today for ways that you can make a contribution in the years ahead.
Extractions: NEWSfromAFRICA was started on 15 April 1996. It was the first electronicnews bulletin in Africa. called AFRICANEWS. In October 2003, since many others were using Africanews as a title for their homepage or bullettin, it was decided to change it to NEWSfromAFRICA. This title reflects better the fact that the sources of the news and the publication are in Africa. NEWSfromAFRICA, like its predecessor AFRICANEWS, is published regularly on the 15th of every month. It is the initiative of Koinonia Community, a lay Christian organisation registered in Nairobi (Kenya). NEWSfromAFRICA focuses its attention on: fostering justice, peace making and peace keeping, reconciliation, emancipation of women, ecology, modernity and tradition, poverty and development, through the use of New Information Communication Technologies(ICTs) In particular, NEWSfromAFRICA makes its own preferential option for the poor. All news and their analyses are given from the perspective of the African grassroots people, their struggle for freedom, dignity and justice.
Kenya District recently hit by ethnic fighting among Kikuyu, kalenjin and Dorobo SUDAN/indigenous peoples Threatened Sudanese Nuba people celebrate day http://www.oneworld.org/news/countries/KE.html
New Page 0 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10 Restoration DemocracyPeople (FORD-People); Kenya africa http://www.american.edu/initeb/dk1540a/Country Information.htm
Extractions: Information Technology Landscape in Kenya COUNTRY INFORMATION Country Name: Republic of Kenya Capital City: Nairobi Population: Language(s): English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages Ethnic Groups: Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1% Religion: Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Indigenous beliefs 10%, Muslim 10%, other 2% Age Structure: 0-14 years: 41.1% (male 6,462,430; female 6,327,457) 15-64 years: 56.1% (male 8,769,546; female 8,694,329) 65 years and over: 2.8% (male 385,361; female 499,612) (2002 est.) GEOGRAPHY Location: Easter Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Somalia and Tanzania Border countries: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda Area: Total: 582, 650 sq km Water: 13,400 sq km Land: 569,250 sq km Climate: Varies from tropical along coast to arid interior Natural Resources: gold, limestone, soda ash, salt barites, rubies, fluorspar, garnets, wildlife, hydropower
Profile Of The Dorobo Peoples Of Kenya And Tanzania A cultural profile of the group of peoples traditionally referred to as Dorobo, in the East African countries of Kenya and Tanzania. The Dorobo are various unrelated indigenous peoples. Cushite http://www.geocities.com/orvillejenkins/profiles/dorobo.html
Extractions: Status : 1% Christian Location : The "Dorobo" are not one tribe. Rather, the term Dorobo referred to the original forest-dwelling hunters in the Rift Valley of what is now Kenya and Tanzania. These peoples live in scattered groups in the plains of the Rift Valley and the forests of the neighboring escarpments. History : Southern Cushite peoples, followed by Eastern Cushites, settled in East Africa's Rift Valley during the first millennium after Christ. They found San (Bushmen) peoples already here. Bantu traditions refer to these early peoples whom their ancestors found there. Early Nilotes, then various waves of Bantu and later Nilotes subsequently came into the area. The Kikuyu refer to a people in Central Province as the Athi (the ground people), after the source the names Athi Plains and Athi River. Oral traditions say the Kikuyu paid the Athi to move into their land. The Athi seem to be either the Cushites or the original San people. (The Sandawe and the Hadzapi in northern Tanzania still speak San languages. The Bantu name "Twa" for the pygmies in Rwanda-Burundi-Zaire is the same word the Zulus use for the Khoisan click-language speakers they found in their early migrations into what is now Natal Province. There is still a San tribe there today called Twa.)
Kenya Population rate 13.5% (2001 est.) HIV/AIDS people living with HIV 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10 http://www.nationbynation.com/Kenya/Population.html
Extractions: BACK TO THE FRONT PAGE BASIC INFO. ECONOMY GEOGRAPHY ... KENYA Kenya has a very diverse population that includes most major language groups of Africa. Traditional pastoralists, rural farmers, Muslims, and urban residents of Nairobi and other cities contribute to the cosmopolitan culture. The standard of living in major cities, once relatively high compared to much of Sub-Saharan Africa, has been declining in recent years. Most city workers retain links with their rural, extended families and leave the city periodically to help work on the family farm. About 75% of the work force is engaged in agriculture, mainly as subsistence farmers. The urban sector employs 0.9 million people. POPULATION GRAPH Population: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2002 est.)
Kenya Menu Abbreviations Acronyms List Of Sources Maps evicted indigenous nomadic pastoralists (kalenjin, Maasai, Samburu and when the nonindigenous agriculturalists were ed., Internally Displaced People A Global http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewSingleEnv/KenyaProfile Sum
Extractions: Election observers concluded that the presidential and parliamentary elections in December 2002 broadly reflected the popular will and was free and fair. For the first time since independence in 1963, the Kenya African National Union (KANU) lost the presidency and the majority of seats in Parliament. Daniel Arap Moi who along with Kenyatta were the only two presidents in power since independence, was finally forced to hand over power to Mwai Kibaki, leader of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), a group of opposition political parties and former KANU leaders. The transfer of power is generally expected to have created political conditions conducive to large-scale resettlement programmes and return movements (US DOS, 24 June 2003). Although cattle rustling, urban disturbances and official eviction all caused some displacement, it is widely recognized that it was the introduction of multiparty politics in the 1990s that was the main trigger for the major displacements throughout the decade. These displacements were often violent, with more than 4,000 people being killed as they took place. The major periods of violence and displacement centered around the 1992 and 1997 elections. The main perpetrators of the violence in both these elections were predominantly Kelenjin supporters of the KANU government against members of opposition groups. However, the Kikuyus who were the main victims of the violence related to the elections in 1992 had by the 1997 elections managed to organize and fight back (Article 19, December 1998, sect 1).
People Of Kenya has become the most extended indigenous language in up speaking English, most rural people still speak Represented by the Luo, kalenjin, Maasai and related http://kenya.com/people/people_002.htm
Extractions: Swahili or Kiswahili has become the most extended indigenous language in Africa, with some 50 million speakers. Currently it is the official and national language in Tanzania. In Kenya and Uganda it is the national language, since official communications and administration use English. Thanks to the relationships of the East African countries with the neighboring countries, Swahili is also spoken in some regions of Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia and South Africa. The name of this language has its origin in sâhils-awâhil Dating the origins of Swahili is not an easy task. It seems clear that the language was spoken at the coast during the 13th century. Some authors propose a much more ancient origin: in his work "Journey through the Erithraean Sea", a greek trader named Diogene who visited the East African coast in the year 110 A.D. told that the arab traders who regularly sailed the coast talked to the natives in their local language, which could represent the first historical reference to Swahili.
Kenya's Languages And Dialects The kalenjin linguistic group is concentrated in the area has become the most extended indigenous language in Siyu, what we call the Swahili people is really a http://kenya.com/language.html
Extractions: Swahili or Kiswahili has become the most extended indigenous language in Africa, with some 50 million speakers. Currently it is the official and national language in Tanzania. In Kenya and Uganda it is the national language, since official communications and administration use English. Thanks to the relationships of the East African countries with the neighboring countries, Swahili is also spoken in some regions of Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia and South Africa. Dating the origins of Swahili is not an easy task. It seems clear that the language was spoken at the coast during the 13th century. Some authors propose a much more ancient origin: in his work "Journey through the Erithraean Sea", a greek trader named Diogene who visited the East African coast in the year 110 A.D. told that the arab traders who regularly sailed the coast talked to the natives in their local language, which could represent the first historical reference to Swahili.
HighBeam Research: ELibrary Search: Results 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11 Protestant 33%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 18 Their contact with Bantu people produces the Swahili http://www.highbeam.com/library/search.asp?FN=AO&refid=ency_refd&search_almanacs
Encyclopedia: Demographics Of Kenya Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11 English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages. People Sex ratio (total population); People http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Demographics-of-Kenya
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Kenya : Geography, People, Policy, Government, Economy... HIV/AIDS people living with HIV/AIDS 2.2 million (2000 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, kalenjin 12%, Kamba Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, indigenous beliefs 10 http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/infopays/wfb.php3?CODEPAYS=KEN&PAYS=Kenya
