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- ====Mombasa==== first known Europeans to visit the port of Mombasa, but were met with hostility ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- and the port towns to the north,such as Mombasa. Historically, Swahili literature ... an interterritorial conference was held at Mombasa, at which the Zanzibar dialect ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- It is hot and humid in the region around Mombasa, with temperatures ranging ... to explore Kenya. Vasco da Gama visited Mombasa in 1498, initiating a period ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- moved to Kenya, and celebrated their wedding in Mombasa the day after their arrival. As pioneers to Africa they operated a coffee plantation bought ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- usually cloudy and hazy. Coastal towns such as Mombasa and Malindi, 174 and 186 miles (280 and 300 km) away, are too far and too cloudy for Kilimanjaro ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- Congo River.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Baobab Beach, Mombasa, Kenya]] Due to its size and other key elements, the Congo River and its basin are crucial ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 19:05, 15 May 2020
- Jomo Kenyatta died on August 22, 1978, in Mombasa and was buried on August 31 in Nairobi. ==Early Career Overseas== In 1929, the KCA sent Kenyatta ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 23:29, 3 August 2022
- African coast, known as Zanj, which included Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, and trading routes which extended much further inland, such as to Kindu on the ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- Uganda, where he proposed to open a route from Mombasa. In 1874, he built the station at Dufile on the Albert Nile to reassemble steamers carried there ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- The city lies on the railway from Kasese to Mombasa, Kenya. Boda-boda bicycle or motorcycle taxis are a popular mode of transport in Kampala. A bus ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2023
- Trans-Sahara Highway to Algiers; and the Lagos-Mombasa Highway, which in 2009 only went to neighboring Cameroon. The Lagos–Ibadan expressway ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
- and may have involved 100,000 workers; Mombasa was paralyzed for two days ... aircraft. The cruiser Kenya came to Mombasa harbor carrying Royal Marines ...44 KB (6,886 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- at the country's international airport in Mombasa and Nairobi. The businessman, Ali Nasir, claimed to have paid Moi US$2 million in cash to obtain ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- making land at Quelimane (Mozambique) and Mombasa, where he found Chinese traders, and Malindi (both in modern Kenya). In this town, he recruited ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- Zanzibar, Tanga, and even farther in Mombasa and Malindi along the Kenya coast. Mwambao, [http://www.mwambao.com/tarab.htm Tarabu Music] Retrieved ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- coast of Mozambique, Kilwa, Brava, Sofala, and Mombasa were destroyed, or became either subjects or allies of Portugal. Pêro da Covilhã had reached ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- made arms en route to Uganda at the port of Mombasa. Tension between Uganda and Kenya reached its climax in February 1976 when Amin announced that ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- Indian Railways (Hindi भारतीय रेल), abbreviated as IR, refers to a Department of the Government of India, under the Ministry ...37 KB (5,222 words) - 13:17, 4 March 2024
- Kenya, Maasai warriors threatened Mombasa on the coast of Kenya. Because of this migration, the Maasai are the southernmost Nilotic speakers ...36 KB (5,546 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- and temples were built in Mombasa and other Kenyan towns in the following years. Temples were also built in Tanzania and Uganda. Williams (2001 ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
