Serengeti Plain The Serengeti Plain is a huge national park that spans over 12‚000 miles. It is located in Tanzania and southwestern Kenya. The landscape of the Serengeti is varied ranging from savannah to hilly woodlands to grass plains. The climate is generally hot and dry but when the rainfall is steady‚ vegetation shoots up everywhere. The varied landscape and hot and dry climate come together to form the natural habitat of Around 70 large animal species and over 700 bird species. The geography
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Wailing with My Brothers in Garissa and Eastleigh in Kenya The latest mayhem and destruction of the Somali community in Kenya speaks to deeper issues than meets the eye. It speaks to the pathologies of oppression and subjugation of a society that once enjoyed honor and respect among its equals. The condition in which Somalis found themselves since the end of colonialism is explained better by Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Paul Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” The Somali person is
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coastline. Other ports include Lamu‚ Malindi‚ Kilifi‚ Mtwapa‚ Kiunga‚ Shimoni‚ Funzi and Vanga. It is only the port of Mombasa which is fully developed with modern equipment hence making it the principal port in the region. At the port of Mombasa the Kenya Ports Authority’s core business is to provide: • Safe navigation • Pilotage • Berthing • Mooring • Pollution control • Stevedoring • Shore handling • Storage services 1.13 Vision World class seaports of choice. 1.14 Mission
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The Dinka are a tribe of people who are mainly located in over Sudan but they have spread themselves out all over the world in places like Kenya Uganda‚ Europe‚ and the United States. (Wiki _ Dinka people) They are a huge tribe and they carry 2-3 million people. They are spread out in tones of villages. Most villages of the Dinka tribe will range anywhere from 10‚000-30‚000 people. ("South Sudan." Britannica School.) They make up 17% of the African population‚ which is a huge amount. The Dinka have
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Charles Martin has a geocentric attitude while James Green’s attitude is ethnocentric. While in college‚ Martin majored in African studies. Upon graduation‚ he served in the Peace Corps in Kenya. During this time‚ he became accustomed to business procedures in Africa. He really enjoyed working in Kenya‚ but he soon began to cultivate a dislike for individuals who did not try to learn and respect other cultures. Martin was hired by HG as the project liaison specialist for the Ugandan project
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countries economies. In this paper‚ we shall delve deeper into the positive and negative contributions that this company makes to Kenya’s economy. Positive Impact Growth of Gross Domestic Product ( GDP) and Gross National Product ( GNP) The Unilever Kenya plant manufactures popular products such as Blueband‚ Royco‚ Knorr‚ Omo‚ Sunlight‚ Geisha and Vaseline. These products are not only consumed locally but exported to other countries in the ESA region (Eastern and Southern Africa)‚ namely Uganda‚ Tanzania
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Mama Veronica‚ a Kenyan business woman whose ex-husband is a member of Parliament‚ lives in the deluxe version of a crumbling stone house at the end of the circular drive. Just beyond the compound?s entrance sits my temporary abode‚ the non-deluxe version that she rents to the Peace Corps. Smack in the center of one of the hills overlooking the lake‚ Mama Veronica?s property abuts the Peace Corp training facility‚ a vast‚ austere track of land populated with one story maze like buildings. Much like
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several well-defined but definitely smaller structures‚ called grabens‚ that have rift-like character and are clearly associated geologically with the major rifts. Some of these have been given names reflecting this such as the Nyanza Rift in Western Kenya near Lake Victoria. Thus‚ what people might assume to be a single rift somewhere in East Africa is really a series of distinct rift basins which are all related and produce the distinctive geology and topography of East Africa.” This was listed as
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The Maasai The Maasai are one of the many southern-most tribes located in Kenya. They are physically related‚ and also in many other forms related to the Samburu and Turkana. The Maasai have a relatively complex culture and traditions but for many years they were unheard of. By the late 1800’s we soon discovered more about the Maasai‚ mostly from their oral histories. In this paper we will look at their history and origin‚ social structure‚ religion‚ economy‚ and communication. Origin and History
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