11 stories spanning millions of years of Kenyan history.
Long before Kenya was a name, before borders, before language as we know it, hands were shaping stone in the Rift...
In 1984, on the western shores of Lake Turkana, a team led by Richard Leakey made the most complete early human...
They came from the highlands of what is now Ethiopia, moving south in search of grazing land and water. The...
They walked from West and Central Africa in one of the great human migrations of all time. The Bantu-speaking peoples...
Arab and Persian sailors had known about the East African coast for centuries. The monsoon winds made the journey...
While the coast traded with the world, the interior of Kenya was being shaped by another great migration. The Nilotic...
For six hundred years, the Swahili city-states of the East African coast enjoyed a golden age that the world has...
In April 1498, three Portuguese ships appeared on the horizon off Malindi. Their captain was Vasco da Gama. He was the...
In the western highlands near what would become Mumias, a kingdom was taking shape. The Wanga Kingdom, led by rulers...
On an island of coral rock at the edge of the Indian Ocean, a city was being born. Mombasa, which Kenyan school history...
Around the 7th and 8th centuries AD, as Arab merchants began settling along the East African coast, they brought with...