Just weeks before Kenyans were due to head to the polls, President Uhuru Kenyatta's government officially recognized members of the country's Asian community as Kenya's 44th tribe, at last embracing ...

The girls all wore gray sweaters with their stiff green skirts and clunky black shoes, and their short hair was pulled into tight ponytails, a dress code required by their high school to enforce ...

With Kenya simmering because of recent disputed elections, a candidate who helped protect his tribe's land rights while living in Seattle will try to return to the United States this weekend. Meitamei ...

The Kalenjin people dominate long-distance running, and it seems there's no one secret. Their body structure, training regimen and traditions all... How One Kenyan Tribe Produces The World's Best ...

They grew up in farming villages -- Teddy Chwanya in the rolling hills of western Kenya and Samuel Mathu amid the cattle and flower farms of the country's lush central region. Both men left home to ...

With its ruling Monday that Kenya’s deputy prime minister and richest man must stand trial for crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court delivered a body blow to the impunity enjoyed ...

Kenya’s Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka appears to be gradually strategising and consolidating political support ahead of his bid for the presidency. This follows the recent incorporation of his ...

History will harshly judge those behind rekindling of tribal machinations, in the name of the now infamous Gema and Kamatusa associations. Recent events surrounding the two — Gema (representing Gikuyu ...

Kenya is 50 – a lifetime in the life a person, but a nanosecond in world history. What’s shocking is the lack of progress in forging Kenya into a nation. Yes, Kenya is a country with a state and a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Sixteen-year-old Dan Mugambi stands guard at a bridge in his Nairobi slum, one skinny hand on his machete, ashes caught in his hair. Behind him, hundreds of angry young men — armed ...

KISIMA VILLAGE, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tribal leaders in northern Kenya pledged on Friday to end female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage in their communities, a step hailed by ...

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