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Kenya
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Mud Huts
- Kenyan culture is both modern and traditional.
- Nearly every tribe in Kenya has it's own musical culture. The music is varied.
- Some traditional instruments are: the nyatiti, the orutu, the obokano and the litungu.
- The Maasai women make the mud huts.
- Mud huts are made of mud, sticks, grass and cow dung.
- They keep their small animals in the mud huts to protect them from wild animals.
- The Maasai Warriors build a huge fence around their huts to keep the animals away from their cattle.
1. What is the capital of Kenya?
2. Who is the president of Kenya?
3. What do the colours of the beads worn by the Maasai tribe represent?
4. Name a traditional instrument.
5. What is the population of Kenya?
6. What colours are in the Kenyan flag?
7. What is the life expectancy for Kenyan males and females?
- Kenya is located in East Africa with coastline on the Indian ocean.
- The capital city is Nairobi.
- The population is 47,251,449.
- The currency is Kenyan shilling.
- The president is called Uhuru Kenyatta.
- The main religions are Christianity and Islam.
- The main languages are Kiswahili and English.
- There are over 60 languages spoken and more than 40 ethnic groups.
- The area of Kenya is 224,081 square miles.
- Some major mountain ranges are: Aberdare Range and Mau Escarpment.
- Some major rivers are: Athi / Galana and Tana.
- The Kenyan government has set up more than 50 parks and reserves to protect animals such as elephants, lions, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, hippos, rhinos and more.
- Kenya is the 49th largest country in the world.
- Kenya has the 31st largest population in the world.
- The life expectancy is 62 years for males and 65 years for females.
- There are around 110 different types of bats in Kenya.
- There are over 100 types of birds in Kenya.
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The Flag
- The Kenyan flag has three horizontal sections and a large Maasai warriors shield covering crossed spears in the center of the flag.
- The top is black, the middle is red with a white line around it's edges and the bottom is green.
- The black represents the people of Kenya, the red represents the blood that was shed during their struggle for independence, the green represents the land and the white represents peace. The Maasai shield and the two spears symbolize the defense of freedom.
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- School in Kenya is free, however many children can't attend because they are busy helping their families at home.
- Music and storytelling is very important in Kenyan culture. For centuries tribes throughout Kenya have used songs, stories and poems to pass on their customs, history and beliefs.
- From 1920 to 1963 Kenya was a colony of the United Kingdom. Since it became independent it has been a republic, with a national assembly called the Bunge, a president and a judiciary.
Kenya's History
The Masai Mara
By Leah Rossiter
- The Masai Mara is located in south-west Kenya.
- It is one of Africa's greatest wildlife reserves.
- It measures around 1510 square kilometers.
- The park is hot, dry and it rains a few times a year
- The Masai Mara gets it's name from the Maasai tribe and the Mara River that runs through the park.
- The warrior is a very important source of pride in the Maasai culture, from a young age Maasai boys learn the responsibilities of being a Maasai man and warrior.
- The role of a warrior is to protect their animals from human and animal predators, to build kraals ( Maasai homes) and to provide sucurity and safety for their families.
- The Maasai territory overlaps with the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and the Masai Mara in Kenya
- The location of Kenya between the Indian ocean and Lake Victoria means that people from around Africa and the Middle East have traveled and traded across it for centuries.
- The bones of the earliest human ancestors ever found were found in Kenya's Turkana Basin.
- There is a lot of slavery in Kenya's past. During the 1600's and the 1700's many Kenyans were kidnapped and taken as slaves by Americans, Arabs and Europeans. By roughly 19th century slavery had been outlawed by most countries, however by then thousands of Kenyans and East Africans had been brought to countires throughout the world.
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Famous People
- Lake Naivasha is a fresh water lake in Kenya famous for it's large population of flamingos.
- The Tana River is the longest river in Kenya, it measures 1,000 kilometres.
- The Nile measures 6,853 kilometres long, it is the longest river in the world.
- Mount Kenya is the tallest mountain in Kenya and the second tallest in Africa, the highest is Mount Kilimanjaro which you can see from Kenya but is actually in Tanzania. Mount Kenya is 5,199 metres high.
- Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya.
- Kenya is located in Africa.
- Africa is the second largest continent.
- There are 54 countries in Africa.
- The largest religions in Africa are Islam and Christianity.
- The oldest human remains ever discovered were found in Ethiopia, Africa. They were around 200,000 years old.
- Young Maasai girls are taught how to make beadwork, cook, build houses and clean clean houses.
- Both Maasai men and women wear red sheets named shuka and beads around their necks. The amount of beads they are wearing represent how wealthy they are.
- The beads have special meanings;
Red- warrior, blood.
White- peace.
Blue- water
Green- grass/land
- Cattle are a very important source of food for the Maasai tribe. They eat their meat, drink their milk and sometimes drink their blood.
- David Rudisha is a middle-distance runner from Kenya. He is the current olympic champion and world record holder in the 800 metres.
- Catherine Ndereba is a marathon runner from Kenya. She has won the World Championships in Athletics twice. She is a four time winner of the Boston Marathon. She has also won silver medals in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
- Kenya is officially known as the Republic of Kenya.
- Half of Kenya's population lives in poverty.
- Kenya is twice the size of Nevada.
- Kenya's bordering countries are Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
- Kenya is named after Mt Kenya which is the largest mountain in Kenya and the second largest in Africa.
- Lake Turkana is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake.
- Lake Bogoria is a saline, alkaline lake that lies in a volcanic region in Kenya.
- Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes, its basin countries are Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.