Kenya Posters, Prints, Charts, & Maps
for social studies classrooms and homeschoolers

Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya, was founded in 1899 as a rail supply depot on the rail line connecting Mombasa to Kampala.

Today Nairobi is one of the most prominent cities in Africa politically and financially.

Famous people associated with Nairobi: Wangari Maathai, Richard Dawkins.

FYI ~ Carl Jung visited East Africa in 1925 and related his experience that he had on the Athi Plain, now part of the Nairobi National Park.

Mombasa, the second-largest city in Kenya, is situated on Mombasa Island in the Indian Ocean, separated from mainland Africa by two creeks. It is a major port and serves as the center of Kenya's coastal tourism industry.

Mombasa's Kilindini Harbor is a ria, a “coastal inlet formed by the partial submerged or drowned river valley that remains open to the sea”.

FYI ~ Vasco da Gama was the first known European to visit Mombasa, in 1498. The Portugeuse built Fort Jesus in 1593.

The highest mountain in Kenya, Mount Kenya, is an extinct stratovolcano about 3 million years old (Plio-Pleistocene). Located just south of the equator, and 93 miles (150 km) northeast of the capital Nairobi, Mount Kenya is protected as a national park and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Erosion from glaciers has created three peaks, Batian, Nelion, and Point Lenana. The glaciers on Mount Kenya are rapidly retreating and it is predicted by the Kenya Wildlife Service that in less than 30 years there will no longer be ice on Mount Kenya.

FYI ~ In 1934 early film journalists Martin and Osa Johnson were the first to fly over Mount Kenya, and filmed the adventure.

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Kenya is an exporter of tea, coffee and fresh flowers.

FYI ~ Read Karen Blixen's Out of Africa for one account of European farmers in Kenya.

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Dhow (Arabic for “mule”) is a sailing vessel used to carry cargo along the coast of East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian sub-continent.

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Jomo Kenyatta
b. 1889; Gatundu, in British East Africa
d. 8-22-1978; Mombasa, Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation.

Naftali Temu
b. 4-20-1945; Nyamira District
d. 3-10-2003; Nairobi (cancer)

Naftali Temu, a Kenyan athlete, won the 10,000 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Lake Turkana Boy, National Museums, Nairobi, Kenya, Photographic Print

The most complete early human skeleton ever found, known as the Lake Turkana Boy, was of an individual hominid who died in the early Pleistocene (1.5 million years old). Shape of the pelvis suggests a male, estimated to be between 7 to 15 years old at time of death. He is classified as either Homo erectus or Homo ergaster. The skeleton was discovered near Lake Turkana, Kenya, in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey.

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