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| Kenya was also was called British East Africa. Kenya took its name from Mount Kenya. (SFEC, 7/26/98, p.T10)(SSFC, 12/17/06, p.G5) Kenya has 43 ethnic groups. The country covered 220,000 square miles, about twice the size of Ne-vada. The population in 1998 was 28 million. (SFC, 6/18/97, p.A8)(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A12) The Bukusu are a Bantu speaking people. They were surrounded by the Nilotic speaking Iteso, Sa-baot, and Nandi. The Ndorobo were hunter-gatherers. Other ethnic groups include: the Aweera, the hunter-gatherer Dahalo, the Kamba, Waata, and Boni (Sanye); the pastoral Orma and So-mali; and the agricultural Malakote, Pokomo, and Mijikenda. The Cushites were hunter gather-ers and pastoralist. (NH, 6/97, p.40,43)(SFC,12/26/97, p.B7) Kiswahili is a native Bantu language. (NH, 6/97, p.40) |
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| Links: | Africa Index: http://www.africaindex.africainfo.no/pages/Country_pages/Kenya/ CIA Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ke.html GHIE Profile: http://198.76.84.1/HORN/ethiopia/index.html Int’l. Exped.: http://www.ietravel.com/destafrkenyaculhis.html Kenya Links: http://www.links2go.com/topic/Kenya Kenya Timeline: http://crawfurd.dk/africa/kenya_timeline.htm KenyaWeb: http://www.kenyaweb.com/ TravelDocs: http://www.traveldocs.com/ke/index.htm Upenn: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/k-hist.html |