Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪

Dive into a captivating exploration of this vibrant Country. Get ready to be surprised, enlightened, laugh and maybe even inspired by the magic of Kenya!

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

This heat is unbearable. The people of Timboroa,Nyandarua and Limuru must be wondering what on earth is happening. They are used to single digit temps at night.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

The Southern bypass used to have the best street lights in Nairobi. They were taken down and replaced with the dim LED lights that are often off. Dear @KeNHAKenya please just return that calibre of lights. Consider this part of public participation as you budget for 2027/28.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Ona huyu! 😂 Just like clockwork. We knew an article like this would magically appear today. Lo and behold, right on schedule. Some things are just wonderfully predictable. 😂

[Matt Lawton @Lawton_Times]

World Athletics have set new standards for sports governance under Seb Coe. But I fundamentally disagree with the decision by the WA Council to hand the 2029 World Championships to Nairobi ahead of London. My piece here:

https://t.co/SsnoDRhFgp

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

When Ibn Battuta visited Mombasa around 1330 he mentions that the diet of the residents was mainly fish and bananas.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

A one-shilling coin from 1966. 🇰🇪 This marked the start of Kenya's own currency, replacing the East African Shilling. If you have any coins or banknotes from 1966 tucked away somewhere, keep them well. They are rare historical gems!!!

[Kenyanbirder @Kenyabirder]

Violet-backed Starling in Kakuzi, Murang'a

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KADU headquarters in Eldoret before independence.

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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama met Malindi authorities in 1498 to sign a trade agreement.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Joto?

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Mabaya Na Mazuri Ya El Nino

Joto lisilo la kawaida limeendelea kushuhudiwa nchini.

Watabiri: Mvua ya Oktoba - Disemba itachanganyika na El Nino.

#NTVWikendi @MwakaFridah

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Kenya Arts Festival in pre-Independence days

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For those who love plots so much,this is how Nairobi looked in 1900 one year after it was started.

[Great Ngugi @GreatNgugi]

I found this 1955 Nairobi map🗺 of its growing suburbs.
I decided to georeference it to today to show how fast Nairobi has grown↗️.
Some may say the small county is almost fully developed hence Kiambu , Machakos and Kajiado Metropolitan growth.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

@ConstantCap @roomthinker Why are we catching stray bullets :)

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Martin Shikuku was a very popular politician and one of the youngest members of the team that went for independence talks in London in the early 60s. However, he also servde as the Chairman of the Football Kenya Federation (Then KFF) between 1968 and 1972.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Ant hills are just a marvel. This is a particularly tall one in Barwessa in Baringo County.

[nyorude @nyorude]

Nakuru Fire Brigade, 1940s.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

@rodgers_kirwa Pole sana boss. Its been a rough season.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

The rains this year have really given farmers pressure. Hug a farmer when you meet one.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Nairobi needs some rain urgently. The smog in the sky needs some good 3 or 4 rain days.

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Mashemej, this level of violence is not necessary in this weather. 😀

[GOR MAHIA FC @OfficialGMFC]

Wangwana, from 'The Land of a Thousand Hills', tunawasalimu, hamjambo.... hapo nje wanasemaje?