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Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. [1]

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ABC Bank (Kenya)

African Banking Corporation Limited,(ABC Bank Kenya) is an indigenous Kenyan commercial bank, established in 1984.

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Abiy Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed Ali (አብይ አህመድ አሊ, Abiyyi Ahimad Alii; born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician appointed as 12th Prime Minister of Ethiopia on 2 April 2018.

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Adar oilfield

The Adar oilfield, also known as the Adar Yale, Adar Yeil or Adaril field, is an oilfield situated in the Melut Basin in South Sudan estimated to contain about of oil.

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African Union Mission to Somalia

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is an active, regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations in Somalia.

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Ahmed Yusuf (Gobroon)

Ahmed Yusuf (Axmed Yuusuf, أحمد يوسف) was a Somali ruler.

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Airkenya Express

Airkenya Express is an airline based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Ajuran Sultanate

The Ajuran Sultanate (Dawladdii Ajuuraan, الدولة الأجورانيون), also spelled Ajuuraan Sultanate, and often simply as Ajuran, was a Somali empire in the medieval times that dominated the Indian Ocean trade.

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Anne Spoerry

Anne Spoerry (13 May 1918 – 2 February 1999) was a French-born physician, based for most of her career in Kenya as a "flying doctor" affiliated with AMREF.

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Aweer language

Aweer (Aweera), also known as Boni (Bon, Bonta), is a Cushitic language spoken in Kenya.

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Ba 'Alawi sada

The Ba 'Alawi sadah or Sadah Ba 'Alawi (al-sādatu al-bā'alawiy) are a group of Hadhrami Sayyid families and social group originating in Hadhramaut in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar

Sayyid Barghash bin Said Al-Busaid, GCMG, GCTE (1837 – March 26, 1888) (برغش بن سعيد البوسعيد), son of Said bin Sultan, was the second Sultan of Zanzibar.

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Battle of Barawa

The Battle of Barawa was an armed military encounter between the Portuguese Empire and the Ajuran Sultanate, in the city of Barawa.

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Battle of Ras Kamboni

The Battle of Ras Kamboni was a battle in the 2006-2007 Somali War fought by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and affiliated militias against Ethiopian and the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces for control of Ras Kamboni, a town near the Kenyan border which once served as a training camp for the militant Islamist group Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya.

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Battle of Shela

The Battle of Shela (or Kuduhu) occurred around 1812 on the sand dunes near the village of Shela on Lamu Island, in what is now Kenya, just south of the larger village of Lamu.

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Belchior Calaça

Belchior Calaça (or Belchior Álvares) was a Portuguese naval captain who was active in the Indian Ocean in the second half of the 16th century.

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Bhadala

The Bhadala (ભડાલા; بدل; भदाला) are an ethnic group found in Pakistan and India.

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Blue Sky Aviation Services

Blue Sky Aviation Services is a domestic airline in Kenya.

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Brian Thorp

Brother Hillary Brian Thorp (30 January 1931April 2008) was a British Roman Catholic Mill Hill missionary who was robbed and murdered in Africa, where he had spent decades working.

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Bwana Mkuu

Bwana Mkuu was Sultan of Pate, Kenya, 1688 to 1713.

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Bwana Tamu

Bwana Tamu was Sultan of Pate, Kenya, from 1713.

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Carol Beckwith

Carol Beckwith (born November 12, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with Australian photographer Angela Fisher.

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Coast Province

The Coast Province (Mkoa wa Pwani) of Kenya, along the Indian Ocean, was one of Kenya's eight provinces.

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Comoro Islands

The Comoro Islands or Comoros (Shikomori Komori; جزر القمر, Juzur al-Qamar; French Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the south-east coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and north-west of Madagascar.

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Counties of Kenya

The counties of Kenya are geographical units envisioned by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya as the units of devolved government.

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Cove Energy plc

Cove Energy plc, also known as Cove, was a London-headquartered oil & gas exploration company with assets in East Africa.

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Dhow

Dhow (Arabic داو dāw) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with settee or sometimes lateen sails, used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region.

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East African mangroves

East African mangroves are an ecoregion consisting of mangrove swamps along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in southern Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and southern Somalia.

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Errol Trzebinski

Errol Trzebinski (born 24 June 1936 in Gloucester), is a British writer.

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Faza

Faza is a settlement on the North coast on Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's former Coast Province.

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Fly-SAX

East African Safari Air Express Ltd trading as Fly-SAX is a Kenyan airline based at Wilson Airport in Nairobi.

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Fly540

Five Forty Aviation Ltd, trading as Fly540, is a low-cost airline which commenced operations in 2006 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya, that operates domestic and international passenger and freight services.

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Frederick John Jackson

Sir Frederick John Jackson, (1860–1929) was an English administrator, explorer and ornithologist.

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Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr

Fumo Madi ibn Abi Bakr was Sultan of Pate, Kenya (1779 - 1809).

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Garissa–Nuno–Modogashe–Wajir Road

The Garissa–Nuno–Modogashe–Wajir Road is a road in Kenya, connecting the towns of Garissa, Nuno, Modogashe and Wajir.

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Garsen–Witu–Lamu Highway

Garsen–Witu–Lamu Highway is a road in Kenya, connecting the towns of Garsen, Witu and Lamu.

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German East Africa

German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) (GEA) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of Tanzania.

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Giriama people

The Giriama (also called Giryama) are one of the nine ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda (which literally translates to "nine towns").

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Gulf African Bank

Gulf African Bank (GAB), whose full name is Gulf African Bank Limited, is a commercial bank in Kenya operating under an Islamic banking regime. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya, the central bank and national banking regulator. the bank was a mid-sized financial services provider in Kenya. Its total assets were valued at approximately US$191.8 million (KES:19, 753, 647 billion), with customer deposits totalling approximately US$153.3 million (KES:15.8 billion), and shareholders' equity estimated at approximately US$30.6 million (KES:3.15 billion). At that time, the bank was ranked number 25, by assets, out of the 43 licensed banks in Kenya then. The bank has plans to enter Uganda and Tanzania.

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Habib Salih

Habib Swalehd (حبيبd صالح) or Salih bin Alawi Jamal al-Layl (صالح بن علوي جمل الليل) (1853-1936) was an Islamic scholar who resided in Lamu, Kenya.

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Hadhrami people

The Hadhrami (حضرمي, sing.) or Hadharem (الحضارم, pl.) are people inhabiting the Hadhramaut region in Yemen and their descendants in diaspora communities around the world.

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Harold E. Lambert

Harold E. Lambert OBE (1893–1967) was a British linguist and anthropologist in Kenya.

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History of Somalia

Somalia (Soomaaliya; الصومال), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya, جمهورية الصومال الفدرالية) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Ijara

Ijara is a town in Garissa County, Kenya.

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Index of Kenya-related articles

There are more than 14,000 articles related to Kenya.

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Islands of Africa

The Islands of Africa are a major geographical sub-region of Africa, and represent a distinct demographic and historical cultural sphere of influence on the continent.

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Issa Timamy

Issa Abdallah Issa Timamy is a Kenyan politician.

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Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen (born 1962 Chicago) is an American poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist.

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Joseph Ole Lenku

Joseph Jama Ole Lenku (born 20 October 1970) is a Kenyan politician who is serving as the second Governor of Kajiado county after emerging triumphant in the Kenyan General Elections held on 8th of August 2017.

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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 Crude Oil Pipeline

Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline, also Lokichar–Lamu Crude Oil Pipeline, is a proposed crude-oil pipeline in Kenya.

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Kenya Ports Authority

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) is a state corporation with the responsibility to "maintain, operate, improve and regulate all scheduled seaports" on the Indian Ocean coastline of Kenya, including principally Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa.

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Kenya Railways Corporation

Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC), also Kenya Railways (KR) is the national railway of Kenya.

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Kilifi Bridge

Kilifi Bridge is the longest bridge in Kenya with a total length of 420 metres.

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Kilindini Harbour

Kilindini Harbour is a large, natural deep-water inlet extending inland from Mombasa, Kenya.

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Kisangani

Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad) is the capital of Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Kiwayu

Kiwayuu (alternate spelling Kiwayu) is a small island in the eastern part of the Lamu Archipelago, situated in the Kiunga Marine National Reserve.

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KUR EA class

The KUR EA class, later known as the EAR 28 class, was a class of gauge steam locomotives.

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Lake Kenyatta

Lake Kenyatta, also Lake Mukunganya, is a lake in Lamu County, in northeastern Kenya.

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Lamu Archipelago

The Lamu Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs.

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Lamu Coal Power Station

As of June 2017, recent coverage has centred on the lack of economic viability and need for the proposed Lamu coal plant, citing a range of experts in news and analysis pieces.

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Lamu County

Lamu County is located in the Northern Coast of Kenya and is one of the Six Coastal Counties in Kenya.

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Lamu Fort

Lamu Fort is a fortress in the town of Lamu in northeastern Kenya.

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Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor

Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that, when complete, will be the country's second transport corridor.

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Lamu Wind Power Station

Lamu Wind Power Station, also Lamu Wind Farm, is a planned wind-powered power station in Kenya.

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Lamu–Garissa–Isiolo Road

Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo Road, is a road in Kenya, and is part of the Lamu-Garissa-Isiolo-Lokichar Road, which itself is a component of the Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) Project.

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Lamus

Lamus may refer to.

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Last Man Standing (UK TV series)

Last Man Standing and latterly Last Woman Standing (known in the United States as Last One Standing and also known by the Discovery Channel title of Six Versus the World) is a BBC reality TV show that was first aired on 26 June 2007.

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Ligi Ndogo S.C.

Ligi Ndogo Soccer Club (also known as The Planets or simply Ligi) is a football club and youth academy based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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List of airports by IATA code: L

The DST column shows the months in which Daylight Saving Time, a.k.a. Summer Time, begins and ends.

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List of airports by ICAO code: H

Format of entries is.

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List of airports in Kenya

The following is a list of airports in Kenya, sorted by location.

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List of car-free places

The areas in this list of car-free places make up a sizeable fraction of a city, town, or island; public transport connections do not in themselves constitute a car free area.

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List of cities in Kenya

This is a list of cities and towns in Kenya.

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List of Panamax ports

A Panamax port is a deepwater port that can accommodate a fully laden Panamax ship.

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List of sites and monuments in Kenya

This is a list of sites and monuments of historic value that are maintained by the National Museums of Kenya.

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List of terrorist incidents in July 2017

This is a timeline of terrorist attacks which took place in July 2017, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political, religious, or ideological motives.

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List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription

This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Africa

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 135 World Heritage Sites in Africa.

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Local authorities of Kenya

Local authorities in Kenya are the bodies controlling local governance in urban areas in Kenya.

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Lokichar

Lokichar is a settlement in Kenya's Turkana County.

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Luso-Asians

Luso-Asians (Portuguese: luso-asiáticos) are those people by ethnicity who were based or hail primarily in Asia.

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Maa languages

The Maa languages are a group of closely related Eastern Nilotic languages (or from a linguistic perspective, dialects, as they appear to be mutually intelligible) spoken in parts of Kenya and Tanzania by more than a million speakers.

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Malindi

Malindi (known as Melinde in antiquity) is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Galana River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.

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Manda Airport

Manda Airport, also called Lamu Airport, is an airport in Kenya.

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Manda Island

Manda is an island of the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, known for the prosperous 9th century ports of Takwa and Manda town.

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Maritime archaeology of East Africa

Maritime archaeology in East Africa spans the range from the horn of Somalia south to Mozambique, and includes the various islands and island chains dotting the map off the coast of Somalia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya.

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Mazalagem Nova

Mazalagem Nova was a major trading depot in the 17th-century located on the island of Nosy Antsoheribory in Boina Bay on the coast of Madagascar.

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Military history of Africa

The military history of Africa is one of the oldest military histories in the world.

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Military history of Somalia

The military history of Somalia encompasses the major conventional wars, conflicts and skirmishes involving the historic empires, kingdoms and sultanates in the territory of present-day Somalia, through to modern times.

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Mir Ali Beg

Mir Ali Beg, or Mir Ali Bey was an Ottoman corsair (or buccaneer) in the late 16th century.

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.

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Mombasa Air Safari

Mombasa Air Safari (known as MAS) is a Kenya coast scheduled airline.

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Moyale

Moyale is a market town on the border of Ethiopia and Kenya, which is split between the two countries: the larger portion is in Ethiopia which is split by the Oromia Region from west and the Somali region from east, and the smaller is in Marsabit County, Kenya (the former capital of the defunct Moyale District).

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Mumboism

Mumboism, also known as the Mumbo cult, was a new religious movement founded by Onyango Dunde in the early 20th century.

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Music of Tanzania

The music of Tanzania stretches from traditional African music to the string-based taarab to a distinctive hip hop known as bongo flava.

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Nakodok

Nakodok is a small town near the border between Kenya and South Sudan.

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National Museums of Kenya

The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a state corporation that manages museums, sites and monuments in Kenya.

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Newton Kulundu

Newton Kulundu (June 30, 1948 – March 7, 2010) was a Kenyan politician.

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Olufemi Terry

Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone-born writer.

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Omweso

Omweso (sometimes shortened to Mweso) is the traditional mancala game of the Ugandan people.

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Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa

Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa (OEF-HOA) is the United States military operation to combat militant Islamism and piracy in the Horn of Africa.

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Organization of World Heritage Cities

The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization of 250 cities in which sites of the UNESCO World Heritage list are located.

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Outline of Kenya

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Kenya: Kenya is a country in East Africa.

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Pate Island

Pate (Paté) Island is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs.

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Political poetry

Political poetry brings together politics and poetry.

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Postage stamps and postal history of British East Africa

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of British East Africa.

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Postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies

This is a survey of postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies and part of the postage stamps and postal history of Germany, as well as those of the individual countries and territories concerned.

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Provinces of Kenya

Kenya's provinces were replaced by a system of counties in 2013.

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Rail transport in Ethiopia

Rail transport in Ethiopia is done within the National Railway Network of Ethiopia, which is mostly in planning and construction stage and currently consists of four electrified standard gauge railway lines: the Addis Ababa Light Rail, the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, the Awash–Weldiya Railway and the Weldiya–Mekelle Railway.

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Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is provided by the Congo Railroad Company (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Congo) and the Office National des Transports (Congo) (ONATRA) and the Office of the Uele Railways (Office des Chemins de fer des Ueles, CFU).

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Railway stations in Uganda

Railway stations in Uganda include.

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Regional Air (Kenya)

Regional Air was an airline based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Religion in Kenya

The predominant religion in Kenya is Christianity, which is adhered to by an estimated 84.8% of the total population.

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Samantha Lewthwaite

Samantha Louise Lewthwaite (born 5 December 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British woman who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects.

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Saving Our Vanishing Heritage

Saving Our Vanishing Heritage: Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites in the Developing World was a report released by Global Heritage Fund on October 17, 2010.

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Shia Islam in Kenya

Shi'a Islam in Kenya is represented primarily by members of Ismaili sects, largely the descendants of or influenced by Muslim traders from the Middle East and India who came to the East African coast for the purposes of trade.

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Shirazi era

The "Shirazi era" refers to a mythic origin in the history of Southeast Africa (and especially Tanzania), between the 13th century and 15th century.

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Shirazi people

The Shirazi people, also known as Mbwera, are an ethnic group inhabiting the Swahili coast and the nearby Indian Ocean islands that claim a mythic ancestry from Shiraz.

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Shungwaya Freedom Party

The Shungwaya Freedom Party was a political party in Kenya led by Ahmed Jeneby.

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Simthud Durar

Simtud Durar, Simthud Durar or Simthud Duror (سمط الدّرر.) is the book of poem praising Muhammad The Prophet of Islam written by Habib Ali bin Muhammad al-Habshi.

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Siyu

Siyu is a settlement on the north coast of Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's Coast Province.

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Slavery in Somalia

Slavery in Somalia existed as a part of the Arab slave trade.

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Somalis

Somalis (Soomaali, صوماليون) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula).

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Sub-Counties of Kenya

Sub-counties are the decentralised units through which county governments of Kenya will provide functions and services.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.

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Sub-Saharan African music traditions

Sub-Saharan African music traditions exhibit so many common features that they may in some respects be thought of as constituting a single musical system.

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Sultanate of the Geledi

The Sultanate of the Geledi (Saldanadda Geledi, سلطنة غلدي) was a Somali kingdom that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa during the late-17th century and 19th century.

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Swahili architecture

Swahili architecture is a term used today to designate a whole range of diverse building traditions practiced or once practiced along the eastern and southeastern coasts of Africa.

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Swahili language

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.

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Swahili literature

Swahili literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the Swahili language, particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands.

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Swahili people

The Swahili people (or Waswahili) are an ethnic and cultural group inhabiting East Africa.

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Takaungu

Takaungu is a small rural village located on the Kenyan Coast between Mombasa and Malindi, in Kilifi County.

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Takwa

The Takwa settlement is situated on the south side of Manda Island, in the Lamu District in the coastal province of Kenya.

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Tanzania Posts Corporation

Tanzania Posts Corporation is the company responsible for postal service in Tanzania and was established in 1994.

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Technical University of Mombasa

Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) is a public university located in the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya Tudor, along Tom Mboya avenue.

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Timeline of African Union of Railways

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Transport in Kenya

Transport in Kenya refers to the transportation structure in Kenya.

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Uganda–Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline

The Uganda–Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline (UKCOP) was a proposed pipeline to transport crude oil from Uganda's oil fields in the Northern and Western Regions to the Kenyan port of Lamu on the Indian Ocean.

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Uganda–Tanzania Crude Oil Pipeline

The Uganda–Tanzania Crude Oil Pipeline (UTCOP), also known as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), is under construction and intended to transport crude oil from Uganda's oil fields to the Port of Tanga, Tanzania on the Indian Ocean.

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Wambui Otieno

'Virginia Edith Wambui Otieno (1936–2011), born Virginia Edith Wambui Waiyaki, who became Wambui Waiyaki Otieno Mbugua after her second marriage, and generally known as Wambui, was born into a prominent Kikuyu family and became a Kenyan activist, politician and writer.

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Witu Forest

The Witu Forest, is a protected area in Lamu District, Kenya, East Africa.

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Wituland

Wituland (also Witu, Vitu, Witu Protectorate or Swahililand) was a territory of approximately in East Africa centered on the town of Witu just inland from Indian Ocean port of Lamu north of the mouth of the Tana River in what is now Kenya.

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Yal (boat)

Yal (from jol. to ял) – Russian and Soviet Naval transom stern light weight rowing-boat with one removable mast and set with the sail.

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Zamani Project

The Zamani Project is part of the African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes Database.

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Zonguldak

Zonguldak is a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

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1507

Year 1507 (MDVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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2007 in Somalia

The timeline of events in the War in Somalia during 2007 is set out below.

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2013 FKF Division One

The 2013 FKF Division One was the second season of FKF Division One and the Golden Jubilee second division season since it began in 1963.

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2013 Ligi Ndogo S.C. season

The 2013 season is Ligi Ndogo Sports Club's second year in the FKF Division One and their third consecutive season in the second tier of the Kenyan football league system.

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2014 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) that calls international attention to cultural heritage around the world that is threatened by neglect, vandalism, conflict, or disaster.

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Lamu Fortress, Lamu Old Town, Lamu town, Lamu, Kenya.

References

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

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