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Kenya - Search View - MSN Encarta (7536 words) |
 | The Lake Victoria basin in western Kenya is generally the wettest region in the country, particularly the highland regions to the north and south of Kisumu, where average annual rainfall ranges from 1,740 mm (70 in) to 1,940 mm (80 in). |
| Kenya’s educational system, established in the 1980s to replace the system that existed under British rule, consists of eight years of primary school, four years of secondary school, and four years of higher education. |
| As an independent country, Kenya was initially a constitutional monarchy, with the British monarch as its nominal head of state and a prime minister as head of government. |
| Kikuyu colonial history - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya (2772 words) |
| Unwilling to accept that the 'primitive' people of Kenya were capable of conceiving the notion of land ownership, the British thought it within their rights to take the land and do of it what they wanted. |
| But the most damaging aspect of the colonial period was the wholesale theft of Kikuyu land for the benefit of white settlers and their ranches and farms, especially the lands in and around the Nyandarua Mountains (Aberdares), which became known as the 'White Highlands'. |
| Colonial rule saw the Kikuyu dispossessed of between thirty and seventy percent of their best lands, as large numbers of people were herded into restricted "Native Reserves" on inferior land. |
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