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15 unusual facts about Kenya


African Community Initiative Support

They are presently supporting the Mercy Gate Champion Children's Home in Kisii and the Silverstone Junior School, Watamu, by finding funds for building work and sponsors for the children.

Anthony Yates

After national service with the British Army in Kenya, Egypt, and the Suez Canal, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1957.

Barnabas Kinyor

Barnabas Agui Kinyor (born 3 August 1961 in Nandi Hills) is a retired Kenyan athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.

Dublin Metropolitan University

In August 2010 the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) in Kenya named Dublin Metropolitan University as an institution offering allegedly dubious programs.

Estimates of sexual violence

In an extreme case of violence in 1991, 71 teenage girls were raped by their classmates and 19 others were killed at a boarding school in Meru, Kenya.

Harold E. Lambert

His subsequent postings were as District Commissioner in Kiambu, Lamu, Embu, Kenya, Voi, and other places, where he gained an "outstanding" reputation as an administrator known for his "profound" knowledge of indigenous law and culture (especially Kikuyu).

Harry Mutuma Kathurima

Harry Mutuma Kathurima (Born 20 August 1952 in Meru) is a Kenyan diplomat.

Henry Nyandoro

Henry Nyandoro(October 20, 1969 in Kisii – August 28, 1998) was a Kenyan football midfielder who played for Shabana in Kisii.

Henry Wanyoike

His mother Grace brought him to the Kikuyu Eye Clinic (a nearby hospital supported by Christian Blind Mission International (CBMI), recognised as one of the best centers for the visually impaired in East Africa.

International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications

ISAAA AfriCenter is hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) located in Nairobi, Kenya and implements programs involving tissue culture of bananas and rapid propagation of multipurpose trees.

Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy

The Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy is a community-based conservation area located in the Ijara District in the North Eastern Province of Kenya.

Joseph Kundukulam

Kundukulam retired as Archbishop in 1997 and died at Wamba, Kenya on April 26, 1998.

Kenyan shilling

The Central Bank of Kenya issued notes in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 shillings.

Luke Kercan Ofungi

Knowing that his life was in danger, Ofungi fled across the border with his family to exile in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mathare Football for Hope Centre

The Mathare Football for Hope Centre is located on Kangundo Road, in Komarock, Kenya.


2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2006 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place between November 6 and 17, 2006 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Abraham Cherono

Abraham Cherono (born 21 July 1980 in Keiyo District) is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase and cross-country running.

Ali Mohamed

In 1993 Mohamed also traveled to Africa to survey embassies in Africa such as the Nairobi, (Kenya) embassy which Al-Qaeda later bombed.

Archaeopotamus

Fossils of Archaeopotamus have been unearthed near Lake Turkana, Kenya; near Lake Victoria in Kenya and in Abu Dhabi and thus likely ranged across East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Bank of Baroda

The next year it opened a second branch in Kenya, in Nairobi, and in 1956 it opened a branch in Dar-es-Salaam.

Beverley Nambozo

Many travel articles on visits to Mexico, Lamu, Kenya, Egypt, Lake Mburo National Park, Kingfisher Resort, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and other places have been published in UGPulse and the New Vision newspaper.

Black-lored Babbler

The population near Nanyuki, Kenya, is darker but can have a pure white chin or entire throat.

Bruce L. Edwards

In the past, he has served as Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya (1999-2000), teaching at Daystar University, and as a Bradley Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC (1989–90), and as the S. W. Brooks Memorial Professor of Literature at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1988).

Commelina lukei

It is found primarily in coastal areas, many of them densely populated, but it also extends inland into the much more rural Taita Hills in Kenya and the western Usambara Mountains in Tanzania.

Conor Armstrong

He has not played for the senior team since the final of the 2005 Intercontinental Cup against Kenya at Windhoek in October 2005, but he did represent the Ireland A team in 2006.

Constance Dowling

In 1955, Dowling married film producer Ivan Tors, with whom she had three sons: Steven, David, and Peter Tors, as well as a foster child, Alfred Ndwego of Kenya.

East African Breweries

Its ongoing projects include the construction of an optical center in Moshi, Tanzania, the support of the Sickle Cell Association of Uganda and the donation of an Ultra Sound Machine to Kirwara Hospital in Thika, Kenya.

Elijah Mwangale

He was a minister for Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former member of parliament for the Kimilili Constituency.

Emerging Capital Partners

Nairobi Java House, Kenya’s leading café and casual dining restaurant operator, marks the first private equity deal in the restaurant sector in East Africa.

Eulophia petersii

It is found in arid environments in the Northern Frontier Province, Kenya, the eastern coast of Africa and the former Transvaal region of South Africa.

Evans Kidero

He became the First Governor of Nairobi County after beating his closest competitor, Ferdinand Waititu of The National Alliance, during the Nairobi gubernatorial elections of 2013.

Evelyn Baring

Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1903–1973), his son, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959

Ferdinand Waititu

Ferdinard Waititu (born January 1, 1962 in Kibera, Nairobi) is the immediate former Member of Parliament for Embakasi Constituency and assistant minister for Water Services and Irrigation in the government of Kenya.

Frederick Caesar Linfield

He accompanied the other members of the Commission to Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, looking into the condition of the Colonies, their government, trade, infrastructure and social arrangements.

Janet Museveni

In February 1981 when Yoweri Museveni launched his guerrilla war against the government of President Milton Obote, Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983.

Jason Dunford

His success in 2006 earned him second place in the Kenyan Sportsman of the Year award, behind Alex Kipchirchir, one of Kenya's many world-class runners.

Kenya African Union

The Kenya African Union was an organization devoted to achieving independence for British Kenya.

Kenyan Sign Language

Humble Hearts School in Nairobi, Kisii School for the Deaf and Kenya Christian School for the Deaf at Oyugis uses KSL as the language of instruction.

Kipsigis language

The Kipsigis people are the most numerous tribe of the Kalenjin in Kenya Accounting for 60% of all kalenjin speakers.

Laban Moiben

Raised in Eldama Ravine in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, he began running while studying at Timboroa High School (an institution also attended by Kenyan international medallist Daniel Kipchirchir Komen).

Live for Life

He takes her along on an assignment in Kenya and later establishes an "arrangement" with her in Amsterdam.

Maggie Kigozi

She returned to Uganda in 1979 following the removal of Idi Amin from power, but had to flee to neighboring Kenya, after Milton Obote seized power in 1980.

Martha Komu

Martha Komu (born March 23, 1983, in Gathanji, Laikipia District) is a Kenyan runner who specialises in a marathon.

Moyale clashes

The Moyale clashes were a series of ethnic clashes between Borana and Gabra communities in July 2012 in the area of Moyale, Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya.

MTV Africa Music Awards 2009

The 2nd MTV Africa Music Awards were held on October 10, 2009 at the gymnasium of the Moi International Sports Centre complex in Nairobi, Kenya and were hosted by Haitian-American artist Wyclef Jean.

Mumbi

God (Ngai or Mũgai (The Divider)) created Gĩkũyũ the father of the Tribe and took him on top of Kĩrĩ-Nyaga (Mount Kenya) and showed him all the land that he had given him: West from Mount Kenya to the Aberdares, on to Ngong Hills and Kilimambogo, then north to Garba Tula.

Nairobi airport rail link

The government of Kenya has proposed a rapid rail connection between Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and central Nairobi.

The Nairobi airport rail link is an infrastructure project in Nairobi, in Kenya.

Owuor Arunga

He was born in Kisumu in Kenya and moved to New York in the early 2000s, where he studied in The New School's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program.

Paul Korir

Paul Kipketer Korir (born July 15, 1977 in Kipkoror, near Lessos, Nandi District in the Rift Valley Province) is a middle distance athlete from Kenya.

Philemon Limo

Hailing from Marakwet District, Kenya, he began to make his mark domestically in 2009 as he was the runner-up at the high level Rift Valley Province Cross Country Championships.

Raila Doctrine

Raila Odinga who also happens to be the immediate former Kenyan Prime Minister, has contested three times for presidency of Kenya and has lost in all the occasions.

Ramlal Sharma

During his career as a university teacher he taught at several institutes of high reputation in India and abroad which included Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Graduate and professional programs are offered at facilities in Winona, the Twin Cities, Rochester, Apple Valley, Minnetonka and Oakdale, Minnesota; and various course delivery sites around Minnesota and Wisconsin; Jamaica, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Silali

Mount Silali, a dormant volcano in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya

Sokoke

This original landrace variety, the defining traits of which the Sokoke breed was later developed to formalize and preserve, was locally named Khadzonzo by the Giriama people of Kenya, who had known of the variety for a considerable time, possibly centuries before the intervention of Western fanciers and breeders.

Solar Cookers International

Since 1995, SCI has managed or co-managed solar cooking projects in the Nyakach district, Kenya; in the Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya; in the Aisha refugee camp, Ethiopia; in various communities, Zimbabwe; and in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya.

Stephen Oppenheimer

From 1979 he moved into medical research and teaching, with positions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, a research centre in Kilifi, Kenya, and the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

Tsavo lion

Two of these lions are known as the Tsavo man-eaters; they attacked workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway in 1898.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1569, adopted unanimously on 26 October 2004, after invoking Article 28 of the United Nations Charter, the Council decided to hold a two-day meeting on the situation in Sudan in Nairobi, Kenya.

Ushahidi

The Kenyan site was developed and run by several bloggers and software developers, all current or former residents of Kenya: Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, Ory Okolloh, and David Kobia.

Vachellia drepanolobium

At one site in Kenya, four ant species compete for exclusive possession of individual whistling thorn trees: Crematogaster mimosae, C. sjostedti, C. nigriceps, and Tetraponera penzigi.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu (born June 22, 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Water For South Sudan

Then, as a teenager, he led 1500 "Lost Boys" hundreds of miles through the southern Sudan desert to the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.