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By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.
In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.
In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.
As a result 120, 000 of the 176, 000 Indians kept their old British passports rather than become citizens of an independent Kenya ; large numbers left Kenya, most of them headed to Britain.
* The Southern Cushites were the second earliest inhabitants of Kenya after the indigenous Bushman hunter-gatherer groups, and the first of the Cushitic-speaking peoples to migrate from their homeland in the Horn of Africa about 2000 years ago.
As a consequence of these movements, there are no longer any Southern Cushites left in Kenya ( the Dahalo originally being Bushman peoples who adopted the language of their dominant Southern Cushitic neighbors sometime toward the last millennium BCE ).
After the Northern Frontier District ( North Eastern Province ) was handed over to Kenyan nationalists at the end of British colonial rule in Kenya, Somalis in the region fought the Shifta War against Kenyan troops to join their kin in the Somali Republic to the north.
* Indians in Kenya are primarily noted for their business acumen.
As a result various laws were set in place to limit African Kenyans in their own land, for example, they had to walk around with ' Passes ' at all times, and free movement, schooling and entrepreneurial endeavors for Africans in Kenya was strictly enforced by colonial policebetween the late 1800's and
Many Indians have made Kenya their home.
Women may marry other women, raise their children, and be generally thought of as men in societies in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Kenya.
Many Maasai tribes throughout Tanzania and Kenya welcome visits to their village to experience their culture, traditions, and lifestyle .< ref >
* 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya ; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
* Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili people living on the east coast of Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique as well as on the islands in the area, from Zanzibar to Comoros, who speak Swahili as their native language
This strategy was used in the USA in its War of Independence and in Ireland, in Kenya, in Algeria and in Cyprus during their independence struggles.
* The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history by Torben B. Larsen ( OUP ) ( 1991 )
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o in his book Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom records how the Oxford Readers for Africa with their heavily Anglo-centric worldview struck him as a child in Kenya.
Among the Rendille of north-eastern Kenya and the Tchikrin people of the Brazilian rainforest, both men and women shave their heads after the death of a close family member.
The couple moved to Kenya, where in early 1914 they used family money to establish a coffee plantation, hiring African workers, predominantly the Kikuyu tribes people who lived on the farmlands at the time of their arrival.
Thus, the Maasai, according to their own oral history, migrated south from the lower Nile valley north of Lake Turkana in about the 15th century, arriving in a long trunk of land stretching from what is now northern Kenya to what is now central Tanzania during the 17th and 18th centuries.
It was criticized as being ' an NGO fair ' and movements of the poor in Kenya and South Africa mounted vigorous protests against some of the NGOs that attended and, in their view, dominated the forum in the name of the African poor.
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By managing all four populations as one-through strategic transfers, gene-loss is reduced from 8 % per decade to 2 % per decade, without any increase in bongo numbers in Kenya.
Nilotic peoples include the nomadic Maasai and Luo, both of which are found in greater numbers in neighbouring Kenya.
Groups of Nilotic or related origin include the nomadic Maasai and the Luo, both of which are found in greater numbers in neighbouring Kenya.
Indians eventually populated South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Zaire in small numbers.
Following ethnic cleansing campaigns throughout other parts of the European colonial empires in Africa, more numbers of settlers from Belgian Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, and later Angola and Mozambique as well as increased birth rate, raised the Rhodesian population to 600, 000 by 1976.
The largest numbers occur in areas such as the Masai Mara and Kajiado ( Kenya ); Serengeti, Ruaha and Selous ( Tanzania ); Luangwa Valley ( Zambia ); Okavango ( Botswana ); Hwange, Sebungwe and the Zambezi Valley ( Zimbabwe ); Kruger National Park ( South Africa ) and on private farms and conservancies ( South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia ).
Hadhramis have also settled in large numbers along the East African coast, and two former ministers in Kenya, Shariff Nasser and Najib Balala, are of Hadhrami descent.
After 1947, Corbett and his sister Maggie retired to Nyeri, Kenya, where he continued to write and sound the alarm about declining numbers of jungle cats and other wildlife.
Significant numbers of the Luhya fought for the British in the Second World War, many as conscripts in the Kenya African Rifles, ( KAR ).
Many also come from Kenya, with smaller numbers residing in Nigeria.
The term White Highlands describes an area in the central uplands of Kenya, so-called because, during the period of British Colonialism, white immigrants settled there in considerable numbers.
Further, large numbers of Swahili undertake the Hajj and Umrah from Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique.
While most Somalis can be found in Somalia proper, large numbers also live in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Yemen, the Middle East, South Asia and Europe due to their seafaring tradition.
Jackson's Chameleons are native to the humid, cooler regions of Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa, found in great numbers at altitudes over 3, 000 m. The subspecies merumontanus can only be found on Mount Meru and the Arusha Region of Tanzania.
In February 1968 Heffer was one of the Labour MPs to rebel against the government's decision to withdraw British passports from the Kenyan Asians who were arriving at Heathrow Airport in increasing numbers, fleeing persecution in Kenya.
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In some ways they represent a stronger opposition because they have the backing of many member provinces of the Anglican Communion and, in some cases, are or have been missionary jurisdictions of such provinces of the Communion as the Churches of Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, and the Southern Cone of America.
Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.
The Bongo Surveillance Programme, working alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service, have recorded photos of bongos at remote salt licks in the Aberdare Forests using camera traps, and, by analyzing DNA extracted from dung, have confirmed the presence of bongo in Mount Kenya, Eburru and Mau forests.
However, chimpanzee fossils have now been reported from Kenya.
Note that the so-called Kinshasa Highway is not a physical road but a metaphor applied to the route by which AIDS is believed to have been spread east through Uganda and Kenya and neighbouring countries by truck drivers from the Congo.
Outside India, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and East Africa ( Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda ) have large Jain communities.
Subsequently many species of early hominid have been discovered in Kenya.
Most Nilotes in Kenya are herdsmen, and they have a fearsome reputation as warriors and cattle-rustlers.
Britons and other Europeans in Kenya have also traditionally dominated the local business community.
There have been doubts expressed as to whether the T-72s imported by Kenya are intended for use by the Kenyan Army.
Turkey has an embassy in Nairobi but Kenya does not have an embassy in Turkey.
They have worked with Light for the World to raise money for vision care in Kenya, and with the International Red Cross for famine relief in East Africa.
Group members also have a notable presence in northern Kenya.
Interviews conducted with some of the Logoli Tribe in Kenya suggested they were scared of polygynous marriages because of what they have witnessed in the lives of other women who are currently in such relationships.
The outbreak was subsequently reported to have moved into Maragua and Kirinyaga districts of Central Province of Kenya.
On 20 January 2007, the outbreak was reported to have crossed into Somalia from Kenya and killed 14 people in the Lower Jubba region.
Over the years, Ethiopia and Kenya have produced many notable long-distance athletes.
The percentage of roads that have been paved and maintained by Somalis during the civil war period is the same as of that of Kenya and Ethiopia, and much higher than in Tanzania.
Hundreds were injured, and state forces were reported to have attacked boats of refugees fleeing to Kenya.
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