Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
1934 - Sir Ali Muslim Club (cricket) founded. 1935 - Nairobi becomes a municipality. [8] 1939 - St. Mary's School founded. 1944 - Kenya Conservatoire of Music founded. [9] 1946 - Nairobi National Park established. 1947 - Kenya National Archives headquartered in city. [10] 1948 East African Literature Bureau founded. [4] Population: 118,976 ...
Nairobi joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2010. Nairobi was founded in 1899 by colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda - Kenya Railway. It was favoured by the authorities as an ideal resting place due to its high elevation, temperate climate, and adequate water supply. [10]
KANU was formed in May 1960 when the Kenya African Union (KAU) merged with the Kenya Independence Movement (KIM) and Nairobi People's Convention Party (NPCP). [93] Mboya was a major figure from 1951 until his death in 1969. He was praised as nonethnic or antitribal, and attacked as an instrument of Western capitalism.
The African Israel Church Nineveh (AICN) is one of the largest African Initiated Churches in Kenya.The Church was founded by David Zakayo Kivuli, who belonged to a small clan which though integrated into Bantu society was Nilotic in origin, being on the border of Luo and Luhya territory.
With the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was disestablished as the state church. The new Marxist government began nationalizing property (including land) owned by the church. Tewophilos was arrested in 1976 by the Marxist Derg military junta, and secretly executed in 1979.
The Wanga kingdom was a significant African empire and the most organized structure of government in pre-colonial Kenya politically, economically, and militarily. [2][3] In 2016 the Wanga numbered around 700,000, mostly occupying the Kakamega County, Western Province, Kenya. [4] The seat of power is located in Mumias. [4]
The East African Revival (Luganda: Okulokoka) was a movement of renewal in the Christian Church in East Africa during the late 1920s and 1930s. [1] It began on a hill called Gahini in then Belgian Ruanda-Urundi in 1929, and spread to the eastern mountains of Belgian Congo, Uganda Protectorate (British Uganda), Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony during the 1930s and 1940s. [1]