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Magadiite, a rare hydrous sodium-silicate mineral [NaSi 7 O 13 (OH) 3 ·4(H 2 O)], was discovered about 50 years ago in sediments around Lake Magadi, a hypersaline alkaline lake fed by hot springs in the semi-arid southern Kenya Rift Valley. Today this harsh lacustrine environment excludes most organisms except microbial extremophiles, a few ...
The following year gunboats were dispatched to East Africa to contest the Sultan of Zanzibar's claims of sovereignty over the mainland in what is today Tanzania. Settlements in modern Guinea and Nigeria 's Ondo State failed within a year; those in Burundi , Cameroon , Namibia , Rwanda , Tanzania and Togo quickly grew into lucrative colonies.
In 1896, he relocated to Africa and eventually settled in Kenya. In 1906, he acquired a large farm, the Soysambu Ranch, which would eventually rise to 200,000 acres (810 km 2). Lord Delamere is also considered to have contributed significantly to the development of Kenyan agriculture. He quickly became well known among the European community in ...
Jeff Mwaura Koinange MBS (born 7 January 1966) is a Kenyan journalist and host of Jeff Koinange Live, a talk show on Citizen TV since February 2017. He was also a radio host, alongside Nick Odhiambo, on the breakfast show at HOT 96, the English-language station owned by Royal Media Services.
Masai Giraffe in Nairobi National Park, 2020. The national park system of Kenya is maintained by the Kenya Wildlife Service.There are two main types of terrestrial protected areas in Kenya: national parks, and national reserves; there are also marine parks and marine reserves.
The Kenya lake system is a key location on the West Asian-East African Flyway, a route followed by huge numbers of birds in their annual migration from breeding grounds in the north to wintering places in Africa. The lands around the lakes include large populations of black rhino, Rothschild's giraffe, greater kudu, lion, cheetah and wild dogs.
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The peak of the slave plantation economy in East Africa. 43,000 – 47,000 slaves are present on the Kenyan coast (44 percent of the local population) [48] 1884 - 1885 The Berlin Conference is convened by Otto Von Bismack. Britain stakes claims in what is today Kenya and Uganda. [50] 1890 - 1906