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Website. puea.ac.ke. The Presbyterian University of East Africa (PUEA) is a chartered private university in Kenya. It is registered and accredited by the Commission for University Education (CUE). [1] The University is located in Thogoto, Kikuyu in Kenya. PUEA offers Certificate, Diploma, and Degree programmes in Computer Science, Theology ...
Kikuyu, Kenya. / 1.250°S 36.667°E / -1.250; 36.667. Kikuyu is a town in Kiambu County, Kenya, which grew from a settlement of colonial missionaries. The town is located about 20 km (12 mi) northwest of central Nairobi. It is about 20 minutes from Nairobi via a number of routes, including a dual carriage road, and has a railway station ...
Kisumu Polytechnic - Makasembo, Kisumu. Lake Region Business training and Consultancy - Naivasha, Kwa Muhia. Lakeview Training Institute - Naivasha Kangiri House. Language School in Kenya, The - Chania Avenue, Kilimani Nairobi [33] Mark University of IT - Uganda. Mawego Technical Institute - Kendu Bay.
v. t. e. The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities. [7] Dominated by Kikuyu, Meru and Embu fighters, the KLFA also comprised ...
The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya. At a population of 8,148,668 as of 2019, they account for 17.13% of the total population of Kenya, making them Kenya's largest ethnic group. [1] Part of a series on the.
Ngũgĩ was born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in Kiambu district, Kenya, of Kikuyu descent, and baptised James Ngugi. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau Uprising ; his half-brother Mwangi was actively involved in the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (in which he was killed), another brother was shot during the State of Emergency, and his mother ...
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 ...
Louis Leakey. Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.