Talk:History of Kenya

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This article is written in Kenyan English and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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This page is under the suspicion of copyvio. From the Wikipedia:Village pump#Plagiarism:

The second paragraph on representation under British rule would be extremely useful if it had any kind of citation 80.5.23.215 (talk) 02:51, 16 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

hi my name is mandy and i'm doing a project on kenya, just to let you know, http://www.mapzones.com/world/africa/kenya/historyindex.php - has almost the exact information you do, i know that this is plagarising and i don't know whose plagarising who, but i thought i let you know.

Kenya: Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids like Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived in Kenya 2.6 million years ago
Kenya: Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids lived in the area 2.6 million years ago.

Looks pretty similiar →Raul654 17:50, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

I did a little more tracing. That info was copied into our kenya article from the History of Kenya article. Those sentences were added during this edit by a bot. →Raul654 17:54, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

I suspect that both are derived from some sort of public domain source like the CIA factbook or such. Bkonrad | Talk 18:04, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Such as this from the U.S. State department Bkonrad | Talk 18:10, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Broader perspective on colonization

Does someone have time to review this article and add its narrative and perspective on the effects of colonization to this article? ZinnFann 00:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Major NPOV violations

This article is significantly one sided and flouts many wikipedia rules. Example, the Mau Mau section: "A key watershed came from 1952 to 1956, during the "Mau Mau Uprising", a terrorist movementdirected principally against the colonial government and the European settlers. It was the largest and most successful such movement in British Africa, but it was not emulated by the other colonies." The statement is not only laden with falsehoods it is also overtly biased.

Bias Violations

The article has bias against the Mau Mau (referring to them as terrorists) throughout and frequently favours the British colonists. (providing the number of Mau Mau the British killed, while ignoring the reverse.) There are also examples of unnecessary fluff that should be taken out as they often add bias to the overarching statement. ("Underlying social tensions were evident, however.") Lakeheadslai (talk) 20:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)Lakeheadslai[reply]

Citations Needed

The 1952 quote from Harry Thuku on the Mau Mau Uprising needs to be cited, as well as Kenyatta's 1953 sentencing and 1961 release. Other citations are needed throughout the article. Lakeheadslai (talk) 20:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)Lakeheadslai[reply]

Protection

Would it be possible to get a temporary protection on this? In the past 10 minutes there's been about 8 acts of vandalism by anonymous users for some reason. TheTrojanHought (talk) 20:31, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New Obama "Birth Certificate" making the rounds on the blogosphere. Someone should probably protect this before it gets hit with false information/vandalism. --71.88.244.109 (talk) 06:08, 3 August 2009 (UTC)EJ[reply]

Colonial History

The first sentence is not correct. Germany never had a protectorate over the Zanzibar possession along the Kenyan Coast. On 29. October 1886 Germany and Kenya agreed on spheres of influence in East Africa, 1887 Germany's DOAG got a charter from the Sultan for the strip between Ruvuma na Umba Rivers (the umba mouth became the Kenyan-TZ border up to this day). See de:Deutsch-Ostafrika. --Kipala (talk) 16:39, 11 December 2009 (UTC) koudycjfkfb lboobi fuishisonvj udbffjuuso — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.104.154.2 (talk) 06:59, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kisumu

If anyone is interested, I was wondering whether we could work together to update the Kisumu page which currently reads like a travel brochure, which is very undeserving for a leading town in East Africa. If possible could you constructively help me make it better, I am hoping to get together a work group of contributers to help out so that it is something close to the Nairobi page. I will be working on this for the next week or two, if you have some spare time I will be glad if you could help me open up Kisumu to the world. Thanks!--Krator1 (talk) 22:57, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Links

>> Kenya's heroes still fighting a battle(Lihaas (talk) 15:40, 12 December 2013 (UTC)).[reply]

Neolithic - Middayexpress leftover edits

The article has traces of the unsourced edits created by banned user User:Soupforone and his/her sockpuppets, including User:Middayexpress. Ascribing pretty much everything foundational about Kenya's early history to "early Cushitic speakers", with no sources whatsoever. Not much time on my hands, but I'll be back to edit it and remove those references, replace them with sourced information. 2406:E006:4399:6701:608C:DA9C:6E29:AF88 (talk) 03:15, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe have a kid version of stories

Maybe have a kid version of the stories 41.220.229.146 (talk) 14:41, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]