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Taveta is one of the Bantu ethnicities in south central Kenya, and also the name of the principal town where Tavetans live. Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (dull yellow) vs. ...

I. The People of Taveta

The Taveta tribe is sometimes referred to as the Wataveta, which is simply the plural name of the people in their own langauge, Kitaveta. The Tavetan population is commingled with with other tribes, notably the Taita, Kamba, Chaga, and Maasai. Because of their frequent contact with these others, most Tavetans are fluent in (Ki)Swahili as a second language, and may also acquire some English or other local languages. There is also Kemba in Gabon, see Kemba, Gabon The Kamba people (Wakamba) are a Bantu people who live in the semi-arid Eastern Province of Kenya stretching east from Nairobi to Tsavo and north up to Embu, Kenya. ... The Chagga (or Chaga) are the third largest ethnic group in Tanzania. ... A Maasai tribesman The Maasai or Masai, an indigenous African tribe of semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and northern Tanzania, are probably one of the most familiar tribes of East Africa. ... Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ...

The Wataveta inhabit mainly the lands between Tsavo National Park and the Tanzania border, up to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Many Tavetans are occupied by subsistence farming, but some work the local sisal plantation, and many take advantage of special local commercial activities (see below). Tsavo East National Park is one of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya at 11,747 square kilometers. ... Kilimanjaro includes the highest peak in Africa. ... Insert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text here Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. ... SISAL (Streams and Iteration in a Single Assignment Language) is a general-purpose single assignment functional programming language with strict semantics, automatic parallelisation, and efficient array handling. ...

The Wataveta land and people won brief international attention during World War I, when German and British colonial forces clashed there. Author Isak Dinesen and the film Out of Africa treat of this history. World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. ... Blixen in Kenya, 1918 Isak Dinesen (April 17, 1885-September 7, 1962) was a pen name for the Danish author Karen Blixen. ... This article is about the book and the film; however, for the African-origin theory of human evolution sometimes referred to as the Out of Africa theory, see single-origin hypothesis. ...

II. The Town of Taveta

The town of Taveta is wedged into a projection of Kenyan territory surrounded on three sides (north, west, and south) by Tanzania. The irregularity in the border was created c. 1858 when Queen Victoria gave Mount Kilimanjaro away as a wedding present to her daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, and son-in-law Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia, later Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany (Hohenzollern). Subsequently, the border was adjusted so that Kilimanjaro would fall within the boundaries of the German colony of Tanganyika instead of the British protectorate of Kenya. Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819–22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. ... Kilimanjaro includes the highest peak in Africa. ... HRH The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal (later German Empress Frederick) Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (nee Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland) (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise), (21 November 1840-5 August 1901) was Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Friedrich III (October 18, 1831 – June 15, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruled 1888. ... Kilimanjaro is a mountain in northeastern Tanzania. ... Flag of Tanganyika Tanganyika was an East African republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, named after Lake Tanganyika, which formed its western border. ...

Taveta thrives as a point of commerce between Kenya and Tanzania, with a twice-weekly outdoor market especially large for a town of its size. The market is fueled in part by Taveta's distinctive rail connection through Voi with the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala line, built by the British during the era of the Kenya protectorate and celebrated in the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness. Large numbers of people walk across the border from socialist Tanzania to buy and sell wares in Taveta; smuggled goods such as Tanzanian rubies and coffee are occasionally available there. Voi is a market town in southern Kenya, lying on the edge of the Tsavo National Park. ... Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya. ... Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya. ... Location of Kampala within Uganda. ... The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 movie based on the book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, depicting attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo in 1898 and how the lions were killed by John Henry Patterson. ... Ruby is a red gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum in which the color is caused mainly by chromium. ... Coffee in beverage form. ...