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- The Fire After the Vote:
Kenya’s 2007/08 Post-Election Violence In the days between Christmas 2007 and the end of February 2008, Kenya burned. Streets that had been busy with holiday shoppers became battlegrounds. Neighbourhoods where Kikuyu, Luo, Kalenjin and Luhya families had lived … Read more - Daniel arap Moi: Kenya’s Longest-Serving President — A Complete Profile
On 22 August 1978, a schoolteacher’s son from the Tugen hills of Baringo took the oath of office as Kenya’s second president. The man who had spent eleven years as vice president — mocked by the Kikuyu elite … Read more - The 1982 Coup: Night Kenya Almost Changed Forever
On 1 August 1982, junior officers of the Kenya Air Force seized the Voice of Kenya radio station and announced the end of the Moi government. For a few electric hours, the country’s fate hung in the balance. … Read more - The Adeudeu: Kenya’s Teso Arched Harp — History, Parts and How It Works
Along the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, in the low-lying plains and hillsides of Busia County, there is a community of Plains Nilotes who have been growing cotton, sorghum, and finger millet for generations. They call … Read more - The Kisii (Abagusii) People — Full History
The highlands of southwestern Kenya, where the land rises steeply from the Lake Victoria basin and the annual rainfall exceeds 200 centimetres, are among the most densely populated rural landscapes on the continent. Every ridge is farmed. Every … Read more - The Turkana people – Full History
In the far northwest of Kenya, where the land drops away from the highlands into a vast semi-arid basin and the air shimmers with heat for most of the year, there is a lake that should not exist. … Read more
