They are renowned for their elaborate upper-body adornment and jewellery. Each location has a chief, appointed by the state. [29], Around 500 BC, Nilotic-speaking pastoralists (ancestral to Kenya's Nilotic speakers) started migrating from present-day southern Sudan into Kenya. The supreme court upheld the election results and President Kenyatta began his term with William Ruto as the deputy president. [26][27][28], The first inhabitants of present-day Kenya were hunter-gatherer groups, akin to the modern Khoisan speakers.
[164], Kenya had a population of approximately 48 million people in January 2017. The story details the effects of the Mau Mau on the lives of Kenyans.
The area receives a great deal of sunshine every month.
As a result, preparations began for all elective seats in parliament as well as the president. Despite its impressive commercial approach and interests in the country, Kenya's academia and higher education system is notoriously rigid and disconnected from the needs of the local labour market and is widely blamed for the high number of unemployable and "half-baked" university graduates who struggle to fit in the modern workplace.[204]. The colonial government decided to hold Kenya's first referendum in 1962 to check the willingness of Somalis in Kenya to join Somalia[59], The result of the referendum showed that 86% of Somalis in Kenya wanted to join Somalia, but the British colonial administration rejected the result and the Somalis remained in Kenya.[60][61]. They cover news, business, sports, and entertainment. [207] Most of these defections occur because of economic or financial factors. Recent findings near Lake Turkana indicate that hominids such as Homo habilis (1.8 to 2.5 million years ago) and Homo erectus (1.9 million to 350,000 years ago) are possible direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens, and lived in Kenya in the Pleistocene epoch. [68] Under Kenyatta, corruption became widespread throughout the government, civil service, and business community. Orthodox Christianity counts 621,200 adherents.
[172], Kenya has a diverse population that includes many of the major ethnoracial and linguistic groups found in Africa. The two official languages, English and Swahili, are used in varying degrees of fluency for communication with other populations.
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