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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 ...
Kenya won several medals during the Beijing Olympics: six gold, four silver, and four bronze, making it Africa's most successful nation in the 2008 Olympics. New athletes gained attention, such as Pamela Jelimo , the women's 800m gold medalist who went on to win the IAAF Golden League jackpot, and Samuel Wanjiru , who won the men's marathon.
Hilary Boniface Ng'weno (1938-2021) was a Kenyan historian and journalist. The Harvard-educated scientist was born in Nairobi in 1938, to the late Regina and Morris Onyango. . After graduating from Harvard with a degree in nuclear physics, Ng'weno worked as a reporter for the Daily Nation for nine months before his appointment as the newspaper’s first Kenyan editor-in-chi
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.
US President Joe Biden has named Kenya as a major non-Nato ally, making it the first sub-Saharan African country to receive that designation. Mr Biden announced the move during a three-day state ...
President Joe Biden's state visit for Kenya’s President William Ruto is "a fulfillment of years of collaboration" intent on making Kenya a major non-NATO U.S. ally.
The president also notified Congress on Thursday that he is designating Kenya as a major non-Nato US ally, making it the first sub-Saharan nation to receive that designation. Kenya joins a list of ...
Jomo Kenyatta [a] CGH ( c.1897 – 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti- colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first president and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the ...