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Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, KCMG (28 April 1870 – 13 November 1931), styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer. He was one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya.
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 ...
Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel. The Fairmont Norfolk is a historic hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, and is managed by the luxury hotel chain Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. The hotel has 170 rooms and three restaurants, and consists of five main blocks, each ranging from 1 to 2 stories high. The hotel has a signature Tudor style of architecture that has been ...
Nairobi has many parks and open spaces throughout the city. Much of the city has dense tree-cover and plenty of green spaces. The most famous park in Nairobi is Uhuru Park. The park borders the central business district and the neighbourhood Upper Hill. Uhuru (Freedom in Swahili) Park is a centre for outdoor speeches, services, and rallies.
v. t. e. Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) (also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India"), was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of the Indian National Congress from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907.
Geraldine Fitzgerald – actress. Fionnula Flanagan – actress. Brenda Fricker – Oscar winner. Bronagh Gallagher – actress. Michael Gambon – theatre, TV and film actor, Harry Potter films. Charles K. Gerrard – Hollywood actor. Douglas Gerrard – Hollywood actor. Aidan Gillen – actor, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Queer as Folk.
White people in Kenya or White Kenyans are those born in or resident in Kenya who descend from Europeans and/or identify themselves as White. There is currently a minor but relatively prominent White community in Kenya, mainly descended from British , but also to a lesser extent Italian and Greek , migrants dating from the colonial period .
The Maasai ( / ˈmɑːsaɪ, mɑːˈsaɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), [5] a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer ...