69 stories spanning millions of years of Kenyan history.
On 18 July 1989, in front of television cameras from around the world, Kenyan Wildlife Service director Richard Leakey...
Dr. Robert Ouko was Kenya's Foreign Minister, brilliant, respected internationally, and increasingly uncomfortable with...
In 1990, a group of former politicians, lawyers and activists formed FORD, the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy,...
In the months before Kenya's first multiparty elections in 1992, violence erupted in the Rift Valley. Communities that...
On 7 July 1990, a date that gives the event its name, Saba Saba meaning seven seven in Swahili, Kenyans took to the...
The translation of the Bible into Kiswahili, completed in various versions over the 19th and 20th centuries, was one of...
In the early 1990s, a company called Goldenberg International defrauded the Kenyan government of over $600 million...
Kenya's greatest living writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, made one of the most radical decisions in African literary history...
In 1994, Safaricom and Airtel (then Kencell) launched mobile phone services in Kenya. The phones were expensive, the...
Daniel Komen was 20 years old and largely unknown outside athletics when he broke the world record for 3,000 metres in...
At 10:30 in the morning of 7 August 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the US Embassy in the centre of Nairobi. The...
El Nino came to Kenya in 1997-98 with devastating force. The rains that fell were not ordinary rains. Roads were swept...
In 2000, a team led by paleoanthropologist Brigitte Senut discovered a fossil in the Tugen Hills of the Baringo...
While Kenya has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup in football, the country's athletics dominance on the global...
On 28 November 2002, suicide bombers attacked the Paradise Hotel near Mombasa, a destination popular with Israeli...
For 39 years, the Kenya African National Union had governed Kenya. It had won independence, built the nation and then...
When Mwai Kibaki won the 2002 election, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Raila Odinga and the Liberal...
When Mwai Kibaki took office in January 2003, one of his first acts was to abolish school fees for primary education....
By the mid-2000s, Kenyan athletes had done something that seemed statistically impossible. They were winning not just...
On 8 October 2004, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Peace Prize was going to Wangari Maathai of Kenya....
In November 2005, Kenyans voted on a new draft constitution. The government of Mwai Kibaki, which had come to power on...
In March 2007, Safaricom launched a mobile money service called M-Pesa. The idea was simple: let people send money...
In 2007, the Kibaki government launched Vision 2030, a long-term development blueprint intended to transform Kenya into...
Uchumi Supermarkets was founded in 1975 as a government-supported retail chain designed to bring modern shopping to...
On 27 December 2007, Kenya held a presidential election. On 30 December, the Electoral Commission announced Mwai Kibaki...
On 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States and the first Black man to hold...
In February 2008, as post-election violence raged across Kenya and the death toll climbed past a thousand, former UN...
In 2009, Equity Bank became the largest bank in Kenya by number of accounts, overtaking the long-established commercial...
By 2010, a new generation of Kenyan filmmakers was making films that did not apologise for being Kenyan. Productions...
When Kenya announced plans to build a new Standard Gauge Railway from Mombasa to Nairobi, connecting the port to the...
By 2010, Iten, a small town perched at 2,400 metres in the Rift Valley highlands, had become one of the most famous...
On 27 August 2010, Kenyans approved a new constitution by 68 percent of the vote. It was the culmination of years of...
On 25 September 2011, Wangari Maathai died of ovarian cancer in Nairobi. She was 71 years old. She had lived long...
In 2012, Tullow Oil announced the discovery of commercially viable oil deposits in Turkana County in northern Kenya....
After the 2007-08 post-election violence, the International Criminal Court indicted six Kenyans, including Uhuru...
On 4 March 2013, Uhuru Kenyatta was elected President of Kenya by 50.07 percent of the vote, just enough to avoid a...
When Nairobi Half Life was submitted as Kenya's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2013, it...
On a Saturday afternoon in September 2013, gunmen from the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab stormed the Westgate...
Kenyan rugby sevens has been one of the country's most joyful sporting stories of the 21st century. The Kenya Sevens...
On 2 April 2015, four Al-Shabaab gunmen attacked Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya. They separated...
By 2015, Nairobi had earned a new name: Silicon Savannah. The city had become home to more technology startups per...
In July 2015, President Barack Obama made his first official visit to Kenya as President of the United States. He was...
By 2016, Kenyans living abroad were sending home over $1.5 billion annually in remittances, making the diaspora one of...
While Kenya's traditional commercial banks competed for corporate clients, Equity Bank continued its expansion into the...
When Eliud Kipchoge won gold in the marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, he did not just win a race. He began rewriting...
On 1 June 2017, Kenya's national day, the first Standard Gauge Railway train departed from Mombasa and arrived in...
In 2017, a severe drought struck northern Kenya. In Turkana, Marsabit and Mandera counties, pastoralists watched their...
In August 2017, the Supreme Court of Kenya did something that no court in African history had done before. It annulled...
When the World Cross Country Championships came to Aarhus, Denmark in 2019, Kenya's team arrived expecting to win. They...
When Safaricom launched M-Pesa in Ethiopia in 2022, it was the latest expansion of the service that had changed the...
Nairobi's traffic problem had become legendary. A city of five million people served by road infrastructure designed...
Forty kilometres south of Nairobi, the government began constructing Konza Technopolis, an entirely new city designed...
Kenya Airways, known as the Pride of Africa, has been the country's national carrier since 1977. Over the decades, its...
On 12 October 2019, in the Prater park in Vienna, Austria, Eliud Kipchoge ran 42.195 kilometres in 1 hour 59 minutes...
On 13 March 2020, Kenya confirmed its first case of COVID-19. The patient had returned from the United States. Within...
Gengetone, a genre that emerged from Nairobi's housing estates in the late 2010s, was raw, urban, sexually explicit and...
Since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October 2011 to fight Al-Shabaab, the militant group has responded with a...
When Lupita Nyong'o walked onto the stage at the 2014 Academy Awards and accepted the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress...
In 2021, the World Bank reclassified Kenya as a lower-middle-income country, reflecting decades of economic growth....
Kenya's rural electrification programme, which accelerated dramatically in the 2010s under the Last Mile Connectivity...
Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon from Kerio Valley in the Rift Valley is the greatest 1,500-metre runner in history. She won...
In March 2018, in a moment that stunned Kenya, President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga shook hands...
When Timothy Cheruiyot won the 1,500 metres at the World Athletics Championships in 2019 and 2022, he extended a...
The 2022 Kenyan election between William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza coalition and Raila Odinga's Azimio la Umoja was unusual...
By 2022, Nairobi was home to an estimated 60 percent of its population living in informal settlements, areas without...
On 9 August 2022, Kenyans went to the polls in what became one of the most closely watched elections in the country's...
By 2023, Kenya's public debt had reached approximately 10 trillion shillings, or about 70 percent of GDP. The country...
In the aftermath of the 2024 Gen Z protests that had brought down the finance bill and cost lives, President William...
In June 2024, a finance bill that proposed new taxes on cooking oil, bread and other basic goods triggered protests...