Kenya
Facts and historical events related to Kenya, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- In the spirit of brotherhood and Pan-Africanism, Kenya has taken the unprecedented step to eliminate visa r…
- Protests have been erupting across Kenya over escalating police brutality. The recent shooting of Boniface…
- Kelvin Kiptum, Kenyan marathon world record holder, dies in a car crash. (2024)
- Thousands of protesters stormed Kenya's Parliament and set parts of it ablaze during nationwide demonstrati… (2024)
- Documents on colonial British massacres of the Mau Mau of Kenya were officially destroyed in 1959 See circu…
- Mau Mau detention camp in Hola, Kenya, 1959, with 133 detainees brutally forced in by British colonialists.…
- Kenya’s first African Chief Justice, Kitili Maluki Mwendwa, sworn in by President Jomo Kenyatta in 1968 Wel…
- Africa's top 20 military powers today ranked by country, from strongest to weakest. 1. Egypt🇪🇬 Algeria🇩�…
- Here's U.S analysts and the CIA 1978 report, uncovering extensive holdings of farms, hotels, casinos, as we…
- Here are the hotspots for African venture capital investment, with Nigeria ($307 million), Kenya ($305 mill…
- Check out our stunning beauties at the Miss World 1967 pageant... The Gambia (Janie Jack), Ghana (Araba Mar…
- African nations with the highest number of Internet users (millions) 1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 154.3 million 2. Egypt…
- BREAKING: 🇲🇼 Malawi's Supreme Court has just abolished the death penalty. At the end of the year, at leas…
- Former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi crowned King of Africa by some Kenyan title-holders and Chiefs in 2011.
- Speaking of debt, look at how much pressure Kenya and Angola are facing, as it relates to their national as…
- Agnes Tirop, Kenyan Olympic runner and world record holder, was found killed at her home in Iten, Kenya. (2021)
- Sarah Onyango Obama, Kenyan educator and step-grandmother of US President Barack Obama, died. (2021)
- Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta made just 2 foreign trips in his 15-year presidency: to England (1964), and to Ethiop…
- Throwback to when Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta, was released from prison in 1961 after 9 years. W…
- BREAKING: The High Court in Nairobi, Kenya, has ordered Kenyan Members of Parliament (MPs) to refund excess…
- Our governments are spying on citizens using tools from China and Israel. In Uganda, the national CCTV syst…
- We currently have 690,000 professional tech developers across Africa today with South Africa, Nigeria, Egyp…
- This date in 2011 we lost the late, great Prof. Wangari Maathai. Recall Kenya's President Moi's plans to de…
- BREAKING: Trump's U.S Dept of Homeland Security's new proposal: Citizens/people born in the blue-marked Afr…
- Apparently, it's been revealed that President Donald Trump wondered why his wife would want to travel to Af…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- Per efforts to fight the COVID-19, Kenyan engineering students in collaboration with the medical department…
- Letter from Jomo Kenyatta to W. E. B. Du Bois, July 2, 1963 Thanking Du Bois for his "message of congratula…
- Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30 (2020) article on Kenya's Lucky Okudo, 28, Founder/CEO, Women In Energy & Extra…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- Africa and #COVIDー19 #coronavirus *121 cases confirmed in Africa *🇿🇦 total is 13, 🇪🇬 67 *Uganda bans vi…
- A personal telegram from UK PM, Margaret Thatcher, to Kenya's President Arap Moi following the failed coup…
- Kenya's 2nd president, Daniel arap Moi, who ruled for 24 years, has died at the age of 95. Here's a clip of…
- Daniel arap Moi, former President of Kenya who led the country for 24 years, dies. (2020)
- Nigeria has the worst police in the world, followed by DRC, Kenya and Uganda, says the World Internal Secur…
- The day Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first President, was released from jail. He was accused of leading Mau Mau a…
- Wedding of Tom Mboya, then Secretary of the Kenya African National Union, and later Minister of Economic Pl…
- The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics census report released today — Population 🇰🇪 47,564,296 (38.6 mil…
- Letter written from prison by Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta to one Edward Lamaka, May 21, 1958. He…
- The 10 most competitive economies in Africa, 2019. 1.Mauritius 🇲🇺 2. South Africa 🇿🇦 3. Morocco 🇲🇦 4.…