WORLD HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

The Kenyatta International Conference Centre, locally known as the "KICC", was commissioned by Mzee  Jomo Kenyatta , the 1st President of the Republic of Kenya, in 1967. It was designed by Kenyan architect Engineer NGILU in consultation with David Mutiso the first African architect  and the construction was carried out by contractors Solel Boneh & Factah. This was done in three phases. Phase I was the construction of the podium, Phase II consisted of the main tower and Phase III involved the Plenary.   Construction was completed in 1973, with the opening ceremony occurring in September 1973 presided over by President Kenyatta. The Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) was then made a State Corporation established under the Tourism Act. 2011 that came into operation on 1 September 2012. Whereas the centre is known as a leading meeting venue in Nairobi, its national mandate following the Act became to nurture and promote the country as a destination most

                                                                Fort Jesus   is a  fort   located on  Mombasa Island . Designed by Italian  Giovanni Battista Cairati , it was built between 1593 and 1596, by order of King   Philip II of Spain  and  I of Portugal , to guard the Old Port of  Mombasa . Fort Jesus was the only fort maintained by the Portuguese on the Swahili Coast, and is recognised as a testament to the first successful attempt by a Western power to establish influence over the   Indian Ocean trade . Cairato, the designer of the fort, was inspired by Italian architect  Pietro Cataneo , while the master builder was Gaspar Rodrigues. The fort was Cairato's last overseas work. Although the design of Fort Jesus is an example of  R enaissance architecture , the masonry techniques, building materials and labour are believed to have been provided by the local  Swahili people . The fort was built in the shape of a man (viewed from the air) and is roughly square, with fo

Water hyacinth, scientifically known as Eichhornia crassipes, is an aquatic weed with several broad leaves and inflated leaf stalks, which belongs to the family Pontederiacease. It is considered one of the world's worst aquatic weeds because of its ability to rapidly spread over and infest a wide variety of wetlands including ponds, rivers, dams, lakes and irrigation channels. Research has found that these weeds can double their mass in six to 15 days. One of the regions in Africa that has been largely affected by this highly invasive weed is Lake Victoria. The first record of water hyacinth infestation in the lake was in the late 1980s and it is believed that the plant entered the lake from Rwanda through River Kagera. Experts tried to eradicate it in vain and by the early 1990s, the detrimental effects arising from the infestation of water hyacinth in Lake Victoria were alarming, affecting the surrounding populations within the three East African countries that sh

The  invention of radio  communication, although generally attributed to  Guglielmo Marconi  in the 1890s, spanned many decades, from theoretical underpinnings, through proof of the phenomenon's existence, development of technical means, to its final use in signalling. The idea that the wires needed for  electrical telegraphy  could be eliminated, creating a  wireless telegraph , had been around for a while before radio based communication. Inventors attempted to build systems based on  electric conduction ,  electromagnetic induction , or on their own theoretical ideas. Several inventors/experimenters came across radio waves before they were proven to exist but it was written off as  electromagnetic induction   at the time. The discovery of  electromagnetic waves , including   radio waves , by  Heinrich Rudolf Hertz  in the 1880s came about after over half a century of theoretical development on the connection between  electricity  and  magnetism  that started in the early

The Kalenjin live primarily in Kenya. They are an ethnic grouping of eight culturally and  linguistically  related groups or "tribes": the Kipsigis, Nandi, Tugen, Keiyo, Marakwet, Pokot (sometimes called the Suk), Sabaot (who live in the Mount Elgon region, overlapping the Kenya/Uganda border), and the Terik. Their present-day homeland is Kenya's western highlands and the Rift Valley. Kalenjin translates roughly as "I tell you." The name has played a crucial role in the construction of this relatively new  ethnic identity   among formerly independent, but culturally and linguistically similar tribes. The origin of the name Kalenjin and the Kalenjin ethnic identity can be traced to the 1940s. It represents a clear desire to draw political strength from greater numbers. Beginning in the 1940s, individuals from these groups who were going off to fight in World War II (1939–45) used the term kale or kole (the process of scarring the breast or the arm of a warr

THE CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF EARLY MAN . Early human cultural and economic activities can be looked at under various Stone Age periods. The type of tools used at every period describe the various stages of human cultural development. Initially the tools were made of stone hence the term stone age. The early human cultural and economic practices have been divided into three Stone Age periods. These are: The Early Stone Age The Middle Stone Age The Late Stone Age Early Stone Age dates from approximately 2.5 million years ago until about 200,000 years ago. It includes the earliest record of human tool making and documents much of the evolutionary history of the genus Homo. The Early Stone Age has been divided into three main technological phases. These are the Pre-Oldowan, the Oldowan and the Acheulean. Eerly stone age period. Early Stone Age existed 2.5 million years ago. It was the longest of the stone ages. Some of the earliest archaeological finds of early st

Ancient egypt developed medical tradition.  Herodotus   described the Egyptians as "the healthiest of all men, next to the Libyans", because of the dry climate and the notable  public health system  that they possessed. According to him, "the practice of medicine is so specialized among them that each physician is a healer of one disease and no more." Although Egyptian medicine, to a considerable extent, dealt with the supernatural, [19]  it eventually developed a practical use in the fields of anatomy, public health, and clinical diagnostics. Medical information in the  Edwin Smith Papyrus   may date to a time as early as 3000 BC.    in the  3rd dynasty  is sometimes credited with being the founder of ancient Egyptian medicine and with being the original author of the  Edwin Smith Papyrus , detailing cures, ailments and  anatomical  observations. The  Edwin Smith Papyrus  is regarded as a copy of several earlier works and was written c. 1600 BC. It is an ancien