Rift Valley plains. Arab traders started frequenting the Kenyan Coast in the first century A.D. By 700 A.D. Arab settlements had sprouted along the coastline giving way to intermarriages between the Bantu and Arabs. This formed the beginning of the Swahili culture and language we have in Kenya today. Then in 1498 Portuguese arrived and settled in Kenya ’s coast ending the Arab dominance. It was during their stay at the coast that they built the famous Fort Jesus in Mombasa in 1593. The Portuguese lived
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Ushahidi ’s rugged BRCK‚ ’the backup generator for the internet ’ Author: Ian Steadman Date of publication 13th May 2013 Reference: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/13/brck SUMMARY OF ARTICLE "Ushahidi"‚ which means "testimony" in Swahili‚ was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Since then‚ the name "Ushahidi" has come to represent the people behind the;"Ushahidi Platform" (Ushahidi‚ 2013)
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Bruno Munoz Psych 100 Dr. Leshikar 2/23/14 Student in College Pressed for Time There comes a time in life where a lot of people get really stressed out. Everyone can relate to this time of life‚ college. The stressing usually occurs when students are preparing for an exam. Either they have other homework to finish while studying or they have two exams to study for which happen to be on the same day. In order for these students to do well on the exams‚ they should acquire new learning strategies
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Cultural relativity is the process to understand that all beliefs‚ customs‚ and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. In other words‚ “right” and “wrong” are culture-specific; what is considered moral in one society may be considered immoral in another society. And since there is no something as “universal standard of morality”‚ therefore we have to use the culture’s own value system to judge the culture. It is closely related to ethical relativism‚ which is to judge
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The Islamic conquest of major regions of Africa began the formation of an extensive trading network. Ghana and later Mali of west Africa would join the trading network and become instrumental partners through their profitable gold trade. After the empire of Ghana collapsed‚ the Mandike people founded the empire of Mali. One specific affluent ruler was Mansa Musa (r. 1312 – 1337)‚ who encouraged and influenced the spread of the Muslim faith to his people and beyond the borders of Africa. A well-traveled
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distributed amongst the tribes clothing‚ is memorable for their expression through what they wear. The language spoken by the Masai people is Maa and they are also educated in the official languages of Kenya and Northern Tanzania‚ which are English and Swahili. Despite often being encouraged by Kenyan and Tanzanian governments to abandon their faiths and traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle‚ the Masai people are true to their culture and continue to live in the way they wish. History Originating from the
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important two are slavery and imperialism. Slavery is an important force that shaped Abina’s life. Africa had already an existing system of slave trade‚ before the European arrival‚ flowing across the Sahara to North Africa and Egypt to the red sea and Swahili coast of East Africa. Europeans got their slaves from African slaving networks. Some of the slaves went north to east Muslim or Hindu shippers. The demand for slaves in America rose because of the plantation agriculture began to spread. As a result
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N08/1/A1ENG/HP1/ENG/TZ0/XX 88080081 ENGLISH A1 – HIGHER LEVEL – PAPER 1 ANGLAIS A1 – NIVEAU SUPÉRIEUR – ÉPREUVE 1 INGLÉS A1 – NIVEL SUPERIOR – PRUEBA 1 Wednesday 12 November 2008 (afternoon) Mercredi 12 novembre 2008 (après-midi) Miércoles 12 de noviembre de 2008 (tarde) 2 hours / 2 heures / 2 horas instructions to candidates Do not open this examination paper until instructed to do so. Write a commentary on one passage only. INSTRUCTIONS DESTINÉES AUX CANDIDATS N’ouvrez pas cette épreuve
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Chapter One: A Tented Camp‚ Floriculture and a visit to Elsamere. A washboard dirt road skims the outline of Lake Naivasha as we make our way to a safari camp about a half-hour?s drive from the town of Naivasha. En route we pass the flower farms owned by mostly South African and Dutch consortiums; staked out along the sizable lake?s edge these purported farms have replaced some of the colonial homes that at the turn of the 20th century made Naivasha infamous‚ at least in England. Instead of
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Comparative Essay: Explore the theme of danger with reference to the extracts from ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘Blood River’. Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Tim Butcher’s ‘Blood River’ both explore the theme of danger throughout. This is achieved through Conrad and Butcher’s choice of lexis. The extract from ‘Heart of Darkness’ is taken from chapter eleven. In this extract‚ Marlow and the rest of the crew of the steamboat are being attacked by the natives of the Congo. The extract from ‘Blood
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