Kenya

interesting person to talk about from his accomplishments to his personal life. Without Louis Leakey’s impact how would have our history turned out? Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7th, 1903. He was raised in Kabete—small tribe in Kenya—nine miles from the city of Nairobi. His parents Harry and Mary Leakey were white missionaries, giving birth to the first white baby in Kebete. Harry, Mary, and Louis belonged to a tribe called Kikuyu. “He played with Africans, learned to hunt,…

Weep Not, Child begins at a peaceful time. There is a tenseness between the blacks and other races in their land, as there has always been. I guess this time could be thought of as the calm before the storm. The story mainly follows the life of Njoroge and his family members. Ngotho, Njoroge’s father, and both his wives and children all live together in the village. The elder wife, Njeri’s sons are Boro, Kori, and Kamau. The younger wife, Nyokabi, had two sons. Nyokabi’s eldest son,…

Good Fortune is a documentary about Kenya, and two main projects to try to help their poverty problem. It follows two projects one being a government funded project to try to remove people from the slums to better homes. The second project is a private project by a man named Calvin Burgess who is investing 21 million dollars in a rice farm. The film puts these two projects under a microscope and tries to show why these two projects are not helping the people living in poverty. When you say…

umbo, Francis Burns Family! A couple months’ ago fifteen other colleagues, and myself from Candler School of Theology setoff on a mission trip to Kenya, Africa. To be the hands and feet of Christ Jesus in two differing parts of this region, Nairobi and Meru. A mission, which had me anxious yet excited, weary yet overjoyed, and fearful yet captivated. Nevertheless, God placed this once in a lifetime opportunity before me. I had a deep yearning to move forward on this trip with no expectation,…

Uganda is a landlocked country and it is located East-Central Africa, west of Kenya, east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html). During the age of colonialism, it was the named " the pearl of Africa" by Sir Winston Churchill because of the beauty and wonderful vegetation. Uganda is a country with beautiful birds, wildlife and climate becoming a centre of attraction for tourists. After gaining…

excision, especially of the clitoris, and was performed by trained older women” (Davidson, 24). It is an important passage to adulthood, of making into being an adult for these girls that get this procedure. The important it has on these women in the Mt. Kenya region is significant. These girls know that when this procedure comes, they are ready to be an adult. It’s a right-of-passage, every girl wants to be a woman. Supporters were very important in the Irua, because when you had them you had…

available. India is the number one trade partner with Tanzania. Seventeen percent of the exports and nineteen percent of the imports are from India. Tanzania also imports from China, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and Kenya. Tanzania exports items to South Africa, China, and Japan. Kenya shares a boarder with Tanzania, which results in lots of trade between the two countries.…

Gidwani observes an inherent incompatibility in capitalism and commons. While capitalism seeks to maximize individual gains, commons share a different goal of bettering the community. So, whenever capitalism and commons are at odds, a capitalist society seek to subdue and eradicate the obstacle impeding its capitalistic; however, Wangari Maathai’s environmentalist campaign against the Kenyan government demonstrates that commons can, in fact, be incorporated into capitalism. The contradiction…

Somalia Geography Somalia is located in eastern Africa. It has three countries that border it. Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. The capital is Mogadishu. The absolute location is 2.0333 N, 45.3500 E. The Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden are the two bodies of water that surround it. Somalia is a small country, they don’t have many major landmarks. But there is a place called Lag Badana National Park. It’s located in Badhaadhe, Somalia. It is located on the far southern coast. The tallest mountain…

Leading up to the decolonization and attainment of independence by Kenya, the Mau Mau rebellion was influential in persuading the British government to end their colonial rule because the citizens of Great Britain would not support the continual use of force and military to simply maintain a colonial holding (Nissimi 2). This uprising led to the deployment of over 50,000 British troops and policemen who killed 12,000 Kenyan rebels (numbers are estimated as high as 20,000 if unofficial deaths are…