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Julius Yego (born 4 January 1989) is a Kenyan track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw.Nicknamed "Mr. YouTube" because he learned how to throw by watching YouTube videos of javelin athletes, Yego is the African record holder for the event with a personal best of 92.72 m.
The Kenya national football team is known as The Harambee Stars. [4] [5] Harambee is a Kenyan tradition of community self-help events, e.g. fundraising or development activities. The word means "all pull together" in Swahili , and is the official motto of Kenya, appearing on its coat of arms .
Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino (born 17 January 1940) is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete. He was the chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) until 29 September 2017. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Keino was among the first in a long line of successful middle and long distance runners to come from the country and has helped and ...
Many foreign men and women take part in sex tourism, which is thriving at resorts along Kenya's coast. Thousands of girls and boys are involved in casual child prostitution due to poverty in the region. Sex workers report abuse, extortion and violence from the police. Japanese prostitutes (the Karayuki-san) serviced British colonialists in Kenya.
Ferdinand Omanyala Omurwa (born 2 January 1996) is a Kenyan sprinter competing in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. In 2022, he won his first international championships, with victories in the 100 m at the Commonwealth Games, and African Championships in Athletics. Omanyala is the African record holder and the ninth-fastest man of all time in the ...
The Kenyan Boys Choir is an African traditional and contemporary male voice choir based in the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Background [ edit ] The Kenyan Boys Choir consists of 25 boys, aged between 13 and 24, from various Kenyan backgrounds and tribes, brought together by the urge to sing, nurture their talent and build themselves into disciplined ...
t. e. The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.
Collins Lusaka Sichenje. Date of birth. ( 2003-09-19) 19 September 2003 (age 20) Place of birth. Butere, Kenya. Height. 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Position (s)