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  2. History of Nairobi - Wikipedia

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    The earliest account of Nairobi 's / naɪˈroʊbɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists. The railway complex and the building around ...

  3. History of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    A part of Eastern Africa, the territory of what is known as Kenya has seen human habitation since the beginning of the Lower Paleolithic. The Bantu expansion from a West African centre of dispersal reached the area by the 1st millennium AD. With the borders of the modern state at the crossroads of the Bantu, Nilo-Saharan and Afro-Asiatic ethno ...

  4. Nairobi - Wikipedia

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    Nairobi ( / naɪˈroʊbi / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census.

  5. Kenya - Wikipedia

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    With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019 census, [12] Kenya is the 28th most populous country in the world [7] and 7th most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi, while its oldest and second largest city, is the major port city of Mombasa, situated on Mombasa Island in the Indian Ocean and the ...

  6. Timeline of Nairobi - Wikipedia

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    View of Nairobi, 2007 Nairobi, 2011 Kibera, Nairobi, 2015 2000s. 2001 I&M Bank Tower built. Nairobi Women's Hospital founded. Coalition for Peace in Africa headquartered in Nairobi. Unrest in Kibera. 2002 Kiriri Women's University of Science and Technology established. World Urban Forum held. 2003 Nairobi Marathon begins. Dorman's Coffee opens.

  7. Timeline of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    1960. The Nairobi People's Convention Party merges with the Kenya Independence Movement and Kenya African Union to form the Kenya African National Union (KANU) Mau Mau Uprising ends [85] 1960 - 1963. The Lancaster House Conferences are held in London to discuss Kenya's independence and constitutional framework.

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