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  Kenya - Search View - MSN Encarta
The Lake Victoria basin in western Kenya is generally the wettest region in the country, particularly the highland regions to the north and south of Kisumu, where average annual rainfall ranges from 1,740 mm (70 in) to 1,940 mm (80 in).
Kenya’s educational system, established in the 1980s to replace the system that existed under British rule, consists of eight years of primary school, four years of secondary school, and four years of higher education.
As an independent country, Kenya was initially a constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch as its nominal head of state and a prime minister as head of government.
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 Kikuyu colonial history - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
Unwilling to accept that the 'primitive' people of Kenya were capable of conceiving the notion of land ownership, the British thought it within their rights to take the land and do of it what they wanted.
But the most damaging aspect of the colonial period was the wholesale theft of Kikuyu land for the benefit of white settlers and their ranches and farms, especially the lands in and around the Nyandarua Mountains (Aberdares), which became known as the 'White Highlands'.
Colonial rule saw the Kikuyu dispossessed of between thirty and seventy percent of their best lands, as large numbers of people were herded into restricted "Native Reserves" on inferior land.
www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/kikuyu/history2.htm   (2772 words)

  
 Kenya, republic in East Africa, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Nairobi, in the temperate Kenya highlands, receives an average annual rainfall of 790 mm (31 in) and experiences average temperatures ranging from 9° to 29° C (48° to 84° F) in January and 7° to 26° C (45° to 79° F) in July.
The rate of population increase in Kenya between 1980 and 1990 was 3.4 percent, one of the highest in the world; by 1997 the rate of increase had declined to 1.8 percent.
Kenya is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), and the United Nations (UN).
www.latifm.com /look/Regional_Kenya.htm   (7568 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Kenya sect: We are Jews and Jesus was an African   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kenya sect: We are Jews and Jesus was an African
MOUNT ELGON, KenyaHeads bent in supplication, Kenyans in flowing robes trudge towards the top of a dormant volcano in one of Africa's oddest pilgrimages.
Meet Kenya's Juda Israeli sect: Their gowns of white, pink and green flutter in the wind as they toil towards the peak of Kenya's second-highest mountain, the 14,180-foot Mount Elgon on the Uganda border.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20031001-0500-religion-kenya.html   (799 words)

  
 KENYA'S UNFINISHED DEMOCRACY:
Kenya ratified the United Nations Convention Against Torture in 1997, and since then, the number of politically motivated torture cases has fallen dramatically, according to the U.S. State Department and the Kenyan government.
Colonial laws on policing, for example, were designed for social control, not for the protection of individual rights.
The results of Kenya's first two multiparty elections were suspect, because they were preceded by politically motivated ethnic violence that resulted in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of some 400,000 people, mainly opposition supporters.
www.hrw.org /reports/2002/kenya2/Kenya1202-02.htm   (8164 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | New Kenyan leader sworn in
Hundreds of thousands in celebratory mood were at the ceremony in historic Uhuru Park, witnessed by regional heads of state.
The president-elect, who will become the country's third head of state, has announced sweeping changes to the way Kenya is run, promising to battle corruption.
Kenya's former colonial ruler, Britain, said it looked forward to working closely with Kenya's new government and leader.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2613915.stm   (528 words)

  
 Kenya
Kenya believes that for UN information to reach grassroots and stimulate development in a large part of Africa, it is high time the UN recognized Kiswahili as one of its official languages.
Despite recent allegations by sections of international media that there is a threat to media freedom in Kenya, we reaffirm Kenya's commitment to the principles of the UN charter, freedom of the press as well as independence and diversity of the media.
Chairman, as Kenya denounces and refuses to engage in government censorship of the media, equally it calls upon all media, especially local and international private media not to exercise media censorship of government or ban certain political personalities and government leaders from media coverage as in the colonial days.
www.un.org /ga/coi/statements06/kenya06.htm   (647 words)

  
 AfricanTribute
Eventhough his physical presence is long gone, his vision for a unified and free Kenya lives on, and is a major source of inspiration not only for Kenyans, but all people of African descent.
It was Kenyatta who assured Kenyans that they didnt have to be colonial subjects and that they could determine their destiny in their own way.
As a journalist, he launched the first indeginous newspaper to voice Kenyan demands to the colonial govenment, and also to sensitize the public on their rights.
kenya740.tripod.com /Kenyatta.html   (1496 words)

  
 Kenya
She reached for her parka and pulled it on over her long johns, stuck her woolly socked feet into her mukluks and headed over to stoke the small potbelly stove in the centre of the tiny cabin.
As she headed back to the cabin, she could see little furry heads starting to rise from a cluster of snowy mounds.
It was with relief then that she unbuckled her safety belt in Nairobi, ran a comb through her thick, dark hair, and followed the others to the immigration area.
www.ausxip.com /fanfic22/Kenya.htm   (9451 words)

  
 Kenya on the Internet
Historical background to Kenya's Constitution, academic essays on the Constitution, the Constitution as it was in 1963, the Constitution (as of 2002), the issues to be discussed in public hearings, reports of the public hearings, discussion papers by Kenyan professors, public lectures, issues regarding gender, minorities, the disabled, submissions by political groups, civil society groups.
Kenya's foreign policy, history (past foreign ministers and permanent secretaries), public holidays, facts about Kenya with a clickable map, brief political history, presidential profiles, words and an audio file of the national anthem, diplomatic missions in Kenya, Kenya's missions abroad, list of treaties, full text of Presidential speeches, the Foreign Affairs Bulletin.
He was a colonial administrator in Kenya in 1958 and has played a leading role in alerting the world to the loss of biodiversity.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/kenya.html   (9506 words)

  
 Eco-Ethics International Union: EEIU Kenya/Mombasa Reports
Since a town school, especially in Kenya, includes pupils from different parts of the country, some of which are faced with the unforgiving effects of desertification, and recognizing that young people will make the next generation, providing an affirmative and proactive environmental education for them is of paramount importance.
Tuda (Park Warden, Kenya Wildlife Society), who guided the students throughout the tour, was instrumental in helping them identify the different sea animals and plants, their importance and the threats they face due to anthropogenic activities.
Her visit was meant to be an exchange between experiences of the established EEIU Sevastopol Chapter and the then newly upcoming Kenyan Chapter, to explore areas of further co-operation and to literally see for herself the worth of EEIU Kenya/Mombasa in tackling some of the world's environmental and ecological challenges.
www.eeiu.org /chapters/kenya/reports.html   (18727 words)

  
 CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW PROCESS IN KENYA
Kenya was a colony, Uganda a protectorate and the then Tanganyika a trusteeship.
Section 79 of the Constitution of Kenya, guarantees the enjoyment of freedom of expression, which includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, freedom to receive ideas and information, freedom to communicate ideas and information to the public generally or to any person or class of persons and freedom from interference with correspondence.
It is in the interest of the people of Kenya and the East African region that the process is a re-sounding success and that they end up with a type of Constitution they will not only fully identify with, but which will also usher in a democratic culture and guarantee them peace, harmony and prosperity.
www.kituochakatiba.co.ug /kenyap.htm   (10936 words)

  
 afrol News - Kenya
As a continental-wide cultural heritage, beads have served as fine jewellery, small pieces of art, haute couture, royal regalia, divine faience and even legal tender throughout the history of Africa.
In Kenya, a handicraft-centre-turned-museum exposes this showcase of African heritage.
Even in the more short-lived German colony Wituland (now in Kenya), the local population rioted against the Germans in 1890 - because they were leaving.
www.afrol.com /countries/kenya   (341 words)

  
 Heads of state of Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 List of the Heads of State of  Kenya
[edit] List of the Heads of State of
This page was last modified 15:24, 25 September 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Kenya   (91 words)

  
 Kenya : History
The images displayed here are one woman's view, mostly of Kenya, at the beginning of the twentieth century, probably before 1914.
Well, the National Museums of Kenya, in collaboration with Rutgers University's Program of Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology and the Rutgers Study Abroad program, offer a unique opportunity at a summer field school in Koobi Fora, Kenya, where you'll do just that and a whole lot more.”
“World Statesmen is an attempt at a comprehensive and accurate list of the heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders occupying neither of those formal positions) for all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 or in some cases earlier.
www.loc.gov /rr/international/amed/kenya/resources/kenya-history.html   (341 words)

  
 Colonial Heads of Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] List of the Colonial Heads of Kenya
For continuation after independence, see: Heads of State of Kenya
This page was last modified 17:53, 7 May 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonial_Heads_of_Kenya   (103 words)

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