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11 unusual facts about Kenya


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.

Daniel Kamau

Daniel Kamau Mwai "DK" (born February 1949 in Gatanga, Muranga District) is a musician from Kenya.

Harry Mutuma Kathurima

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

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.

John Wallace Pringle

The survey's findings confirmed that the caravan route to the Great Rift Valley was the best path for the line, followed by the easiest gradient to be found over the Mau Escarpment and down to Lake Victoria.

Joseph Kundukulam

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

Kenyan shilling

In 2010, Section 231(4) of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya stated "Notes and coins issued by the Central Bank of Kenya may bear images that depict or symbolise Kenya or an aspect of Kenya but may not bear the portrait of any individual."

The First Grader

The British-produced film was shot on location in the Rift Valley in Kenya, despite earlier reports that it would be filmed in South Africa.

Wilfred Kibet Kigen

Kigen was persuaded by Wilson Boit Kipketer (a world record holder in the steeplechase) to move to Ngong to focus on his running.


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.

Africa Inland Mission

He and his family moved to Africa and for the next two decades he provided strong, if not undisputed, leadership for the headquarters, established in 1903 at Kijabe, Kenya.

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.

Arap Bethke

Ricardo Arap Bethke Galdames (born March 12, 1980 in Nairobi, Kenya) is a Mexican actor.

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.

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).

Cephas Yao Agbemenu

Cephas Yao Agbemenu was a member of and contributor to the African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings Committee, chaired by Father Joseph Healey founded in Nairobi, Kenya.

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.

Daisy Waugh

A Small Town in Africa (1994), a book about Waugh's experiences while living for six months at Isiolo in the Eastern Province of Kenya, was well received.

Dan 'chizi' Aceda

Dan "chizi" Aceda (born Dan Okoth Ochieng in 1984 in Kisumu District in Western Kenya), is a Kenyan architect, musician, and actor based in Nairobi.

Duncan Allan

Along with Seren Waters, Allan is expected to be part of the team that pulls Kenya from their prolonged slump following the brilliant 2003 Cricket World Cup campaign.

Elijah Mwangale

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

Ermias Wolday

Whilst competing in the 2009 CECAFA Cup in Kenya he was part of the Eritrea national football team which failed to return home after competing in the regional tournament in Nairobi.

Fabrice Kwizera

Kwizera began his studies at Cibitoke II Primary School but moved to Kenya with his family as a refugee in 2002, having spent time living in Uganda.

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.

George Padmore

As Carol Polsgrove has shown in Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause, Padmore and his allies in the 1930s and 1940s—among them C. L. R. James, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah and South Africa's Peter Abrahams—saw publishing as a strategy for political change.

Kenya African Union

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

Kilunda RFC

Kilunda Rugby Football Club, also known as Kilunda / Masaku RFC, is a Kenyan rugby union club based in Machakos.

Live for Life

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

Mathare Football for Hope Centre

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

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.

Munyua Waiyaki

A few months later he went for further studies in Britain which he pursued until he returned to Kenya in 1958.

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.

Nandi–Markweta languages

In Kenya, where speakers make up 18% of the population, the name Kalenjin, a Nandi expression meaning "I say (to you)", gained prominence in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, when several Kalenjin-speaking peoples united under it.

National Museums of Kenya

The National Museum of Kenya was founded by the East Africa Natural History Society (E.A.N.H.S.) in 1910; the Society's main goal was and is to conduct an ongoing critical scientific examination of the natural attributes of the East African habitat.

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.

P. minutus

Phrynobatrachus minutus, a frog species found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

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.

Robert Langbaum

Out of Africa, the book for which she is best known, was also published in 1934, though it recollects a much earlier period, the many years in which she managed a coffee farm in Kenya.

Ruma National Park

It was later renamed “Ruma” after one of Kenya’s most powerful wizard, the much feared Gor Mahia who lived around the park (affiliated to Gor Mahia F.C.).

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

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.

Stickfighting Days

It defeated shortlisted entries by writers from across Africa, including Ken Barris (South Africa), Lily Mabura (Kenya), Namwali Serpell (Zambia), and Alex Smith (South Africa).

The Africans

The programme interviewed Africans living in Kenya, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and South Africa and focused on the everyday lives of people working for social change, democratisation and progress in their own local communities.

Titus Mbishei

Titus Kipjumba Mbishei (born 28 October 1990 in Mount Elgon District) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in track, cross country and road running.

Tom Lyon

Along with Drummond Money-Coutts, he toured Kenya performing magic in 2007, and a DVD, Kenyan Conjurations, was produced about their exploits.

Traveling library

A camel library service exists in Kenya which is funded by the Kenyan government and as a charity in Garissa and Wajir near the border with Somalia.

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.

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.