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  2. East Africa Time - Wikipedia

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    East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00 ), which is the same as Moscow Time , Arabia Standard Time , Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time .

  3. Languages of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Languages of Kenya. Kenya is a multilingual country. The two official languages of Kenya, Swahili and English are widely spoken as lingua francas; however, including second-language speakers, Swahili is more widely spoken than English. [1] Swahili is a Bantu language native to East Africa and English is inherited from British colonial rule .

  4. Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. 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.

  5. Timeline of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Findings at Olorgesailie in Southern Kenya indicate that advanced middle stone age technology and long distance trade was established by this time. ~40 kyr Ostrich shell bead jewellery and obsidian tools dating to this time are found at Enkapune ya Muto in the Central rift valley. The rock shelter is occupied in phases until 1,300 years ago.

  6. Madaraka Day - Wikipedia

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    Kenya only attained partial independence on this day in 1963 and did not become a fully established republic until about a year and a half later, on 12 December 1964. In recognition of that, Kenya also celebrates Jamhuri Day (Republic Day) on 12 December every year. Madaraka is a Swahili word for "authority, ruling power".

  7. Samburu County - Wikipedia

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    Website. samburu .go .ke. Samburu County is a county in the former Rift Valley Province, Kenya which covers an area of roughly 21,000 km 2 (8,000 mi 2) in northern Kenya where the Samburu, Turkana and many other tribes live. It stretches north from the Wuaso Ng'iro River to the south of Lake Turkana. According to the 2019 census, the county has ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Kenyan taxation system - Wikipedia

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    Kenyan taxation system. Kenya's taxation system covers income tax, value-added tax, customs and excise duty. The regulations are governed by independent legislators that govern the taxation system, the main legislator, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has different sections that deal with the above taxes while also having the authority to ...