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Modern History Sourcebook: Jomo Kenyatta - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1952kenyatta-kau1.html

Speech at the Kenya African Union Meeting at Nyeri, July 26, 1952

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Kenya - History - English
URL: http://www.jambokenya.com/jambo/kenya/history1.htm

Written records and archeological evidence are the two primary sources of historical information about Kenya. The written records focus on the coastal region primarily because of its rich history of trade with the southern Arab nations. The Kenyan interior, however, remained mostly undocumented prior to the 19th century.

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Kenya - Government/History - English
URL: http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/government/moi.html

President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi.

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Kenya - Government/History - Mzee Jomo Kenyatta - English
URL: http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/government/kenyatta.html

President Jomo Kenyatta. Taa ya Kenya or Swahili for the 'Light of Kenya' was the man who brought the light of independence to Kenya. Indeed, he was a beacon, a rallying point for suffering Kenyans to fight for their rights, justice and freedom.

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History of Kenya - English
URL: http://www.worldrover.com/history/kenya_history.html

Cushitic-speaking people from northern Africa moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 BC. Arab traders began frequenting the Kenya coast around the first century A.D. Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invited colonization, and Arab and Persian settlements sprouted along the coast by the eighth century.

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Tim and Lara Beth's Kenya Page - History - English
URL: http://www.blissites.com/kenya/history.html

The Peopling of the Interior. The Kenya Coast. The Portuguese Presence. The Omani Hegemony.

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Kenya -- History - English
URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/k-hist.html

Two waves of Bantu migrants moving in a southward direction began arriving in Kenya 2,000 years ago, bringing with them techniques now associated with the Iron Age. The largest of these groups in Kenya today are the Kikuyu and the Kamba.

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Kenya - HISTORY - English
URL: http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/kenya/history.htm

In 1893 Uganda became a British protectorate closely followed by Kenya - 1895. The British were just interested in controlling the rich resources of Uganda and to facilitate this they built a railway between Mombasa and Kampala using labourers from India, many of whom remained and have become todays merchant class.

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World History Archives: The working-class history of Kenya - English
URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/36/index-bd.html

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