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White people in Kenya

Index White people in Kenya

White Kenyans are those born in or resident in Kenya who descend from Europeans and/or identify themselves as White. [1]

65 relations: Aberdare Range, Age of Discovery, Alice de Janzé, Anglo-Irish people, Aristocracy (class), Baron, Baron Delamere, Baronet, BBC, Berkeley Cole, British diaspora in Africa, British people, Carl Peters, Commonwealth of Nations, Demographics of Kenya, Denys Finch Hatton, East Africa Protectorate, Ethnic groups in Europe, Fellow of the Royal Society, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Great Rift Valley, Kenya, Happy Valley set, Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, Imperial British East Africa Company, Indians in Kenya, J. Ogden Armour, Jock Delves Broughton, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Johannes Rebmann, Jomo Kenyatta, Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Judiciary, Karen Blixen, Kenya, Kenya Colony, Kikuyu people, Lady Idina Sackville, Lake Victoria, Lancaster House Conferences (Kenya), List of Kenyan European people, Mau Mau Uprising, Mombasa, Nairobi, Nairobi County, Naivasha, New Imperialism, Nyeri, Out of Africa, Rhodesia, Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, ..., Richard Leakey, Rift Valley Province, Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet, Thomas Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere, Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley, Uganda Railway, Ulster, Wall Street Crash of 1929, White Africans of European ancestry, White Highlands, White Mischief (film), White people, White privilege, World Bank, World War II. Expand index (15 more) »

Aberdare Range

The Aberdare Range (formerly the Sattima Range, Kikuyu: Nyandarua) is a 160 km long mountain range of upland, north of Kenya's capital Nairobi with an average elevation of.

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century) is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.

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Alice de Janzé

Alice de Janzé, née Silverthorne (28 September 1899 – 30 September 1941),Reed, Frank Fremont (1982).

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Anglo-Irish people

Anglo-Irish is a term which was more commonly used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a social class in Ireland, whose members are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy.

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Aristocracy (class)

The aristocracy is a social class that a particular society considers its highest order.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.

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Baron Delamere

Baron Delamere, of Vale Royal in the County of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Berkeley Cole

The Venerable (Ronald) Berkeley Cole (1913–1996) was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the first half of the mid 20th century.

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British diaspora in Africa

The British diaspora in Africa is a population group broadly defined as English-speaking white Africans of mainly (but not only) British descent who live in or come from Sub-Saharan Africa.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Carl Peters

Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918), was a German colonial ruler, explorer, politician and author, a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of the modern republic Tanzania).

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Demographics of Kenya

The demography of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics.

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Denys Finch Hatton

Denys George Finch Hatton (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was an English aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen Blixen (also known by her pen name as Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937.

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East Africa Protectorate

East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was an area in the African Great Lakes occupying roughly the same terrain as present-day Kenya (approximately) from the Indian Ocean inland to Uganda and the Great Rift Valley.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Great Rift Valley, Kenya

The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south.

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Happy Valley set

The so-called Happy Valley set was a group of hedonistic, largely British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and adventurers who settled in the "Happy Valley" region of the Wanjohi Valley, "Around the Aberdares – Home with Hostelbookers" (Aberdare Range), Rough Guides Ltd., Hostelbookers.com, 2006, webpage: near the Aberdare mountain range, in colonial Kenya and Uganda between the 1920s and the 1940s.

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Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere

Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere, (28 April 1870 – 13 November 1931), styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer.

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Imperial British East Africa Company

The Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC) was the administrator of British East Africa, which was the forerunner of the East Africa Protectorate, later Kenya.

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Indians in Kenya

Indians in Kenya (also referred to as Kenyan Asians) are citizens and residents of Kenya with ancestral roots in the Indian subcontinent.

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J. Ogden Armour

Jonathan Ogden Armour (November 11, 1863 – August 16, 1927) was an American meatpacking magnate and only surviving son of Civil War-era industrialist Philip Danforth Armour.

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Jock Delves Broughton

Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 11th Baronet DL (10 September 1883 – 5 December 1942) was a British baronet who is chiefly known for standing trial for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll.

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Johann Ludwig Krapf

Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler.

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Johannes Rebmann

Johannes Rebmann (January 16, 1820 – October 4, 1876) was a German missionary and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast.

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Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta (– 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.

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Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll

Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (11 May 1901 – 24 January 1941)Cokayne et al., The Complete Peerage, volume I, p.1337 was a British peer, famed for the unsolved case surrounding his murder and the sensation it caused during wartime in Britain.

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Judiciary

The judiciary (also known as the judicial system or court system) is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state.

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Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (née Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kenya Colony

The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until 1963.

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Kikuyu people

The Kikuyu (also Akikûyu/Agikuyu/Gikuyu) is the largest ethnic group in Kenya.

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Lady Idina Sackville

Lady Myra Idina Sackville (26 February 1893 – 5 November 1955) was an English aristocrat and member of the Happy Valley set.

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Lancaster House Conferences (Kenya)

The Lancaster House conferences were three meetings (1960, 1962, 1963) in which Kenya's constitutional framework and independence were negotiated.

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List of Kenyan European people

The following is a list of notable Kenyan Europeans, either persons born in or resident in Kenya with ancestry in Europe.

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Mau Mau Uprising

The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1964), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–63).

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya.

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Nairobi County

Nairobi County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya.

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Naivasha

Naivasha is a market town in Nakuru County, Kenya, lying north west of Nairobi.

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New Imperialism

In historical contexts, New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Nyeri

Nyeri is a city situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya.

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Out of Africa

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe.

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Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence

The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) was a statement adopted by the Cabinet of Rhodesia on 11 November 1965, announcing that Rhodesia, a British territory in southern Africa that had governed itself since 1923, now regarded itself as an independent sovereign state.

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Richard Leakey

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (born 19 December 1944) is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician.

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Rift Valley Province

Rift Valley Province (Mkoa wa Bonde la Ufa) of Kenya, bordering Uganda, was one of Kenya's eight provinces, before the Kenyan general election, 2013.

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Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet

Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet CIE (13 March 1823 – 22 June 1893) was a Scottish ship-owner and businessman who built up substantial commercial interests in India and East Africa.

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Thomas Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere

Thomas Pitt Hamilton Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere (19 August 1900– 13 April 1979), styled The Honourable Thomas Cholmondeley from birth until 1931, was a British peer.

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Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley

The Hon. Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley (19 June 1968 – 17 August 2016) was a Kenyan farmer.

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Uganda Railway

Mainly built to serve as a transport system of carrying goods such as minerals from interior Uganda and the Magadi section in Kenya, the once famous railway also faced some drawbacks to its completion.

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Ulster

Ulster (Ulaidh or Cúige Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr or Ulster) is a province in the north of the island of Ireland.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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White Africans of European ancestry

White Africans are people of European descent residing in, or hailing from, Africa who identify themselves as (or are identified as) white.

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White Highlands

The White Highlands is an area in the central uplands of Kenya, so-called because, during the period of British colonialism, European or white immigrants settled there in considerable numbers.

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White Mischief (film)

White Mischief is a 1987 British film dramatizing the events of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941, when Sir Henry "Jock" Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll.

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White people

White people is a racial classification specifier, used mostly for people of European descent; depending on context, nationality, and point of view, the term has at times been expanded to encompass certain persons of North African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, persons who are often considered non-white in other contexts.

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White privilege

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is the societal privilege that benefits people whom society identifies as white in some countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people_in_Kenya

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