Tagged: Kenya

  1. Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century. From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000. To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries. These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean. Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history. Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century. From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000. To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries. These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean. Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history.
    Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century. From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000. To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries. These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean. Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history. Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century. From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000. To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries. These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean. Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history.
    Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century. From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000. To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries. These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean. Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history. Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century. From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000. To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries. These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean. Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history.

    Ruins of Gedi Kenya Mombasa

    The ruins of Gedi  in the depths of the great Arabuko Sokoke forest Kenya. Is a place of great mystery, an archaeological puzzle that continues to engender debate among historians. built during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century.

    From the 13th or 14th to 17th centuries, Gedi was a thriving community along the jungle coast of East Africa. Although no written record exists of this town, excavations between 1948 and 1958 revealed that the inhabitants traded with people from all over the world. Some of the findings included beads from Venice, coins and a Ming vase from China, an iron lamp from India, and scissors from Spain. The population was estimated to exceed at least 2500 people. These items can be found in the museum in the complex which was opened in 2000.

    To this day, despite extensive research and exploration, nobody is really sure what happened to the town of Gedi and its peoples. This once great civilization was a powerful and complex Swahili settlement with a population of over 2500, built during the 13th century. The ruins of Gedi include many houses, mansions, mosques and elaborate tombs and cemeteries.

    These houses were complex for their time, with bathrooms with drains and overhead basins to flush toilets. The city’s streets were laid out at right angles and had drainage gutters. There are also wells which supplied water to the community. The material used to construct the buildings was made from coral reef from the nearby ocean.

    Despite the size and complexity of this large (at least 45 acre) settlement, it is never mentioned in any historic writings or local recorded history.

  2. -cityoflove: Malindi, Kenya via degani -cityoflove: Malindi, Kenya via degani

    -cityoflove:

    Malindi, Kenya via degani

    (via theafricatheynevershowyou)

  3. Wonders of the African World - Episode 1 & 2 - Black Kingdoms of the Nile & The Swahili Coast.

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels through Egypt and Sudan in search of the ancient civilization of Nubia. In the second segment, Gates travels along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania to the island of Zanzibar in search of the origins of Swahili heritage.

  4. telafrictv:

    SHUGA!

    An MTV Staying Alive drama set in Nairobi, Kenya.


    In Episode 1 Ayira has hopes of the high life, meanwhile the fast boys flex their masculinity and Virginia plays hard to get.

    For those who have never grown up in Africa, or been there. This offers you a glimpse of what life back home can be like, as it differs in regards to where your from E.G. life in Abuja, Nigeria can be very different to life in Gaborone, Botswana. If you’ve been I recommend this show.

  5. Documentary on Ethiopia: BBC’s An African Journey

    East Africa Ethiopia, Kenya & Tanzania: BBC’s An African Journey - Part 2

    ‘Explore an Africa that is in my view is too often forgotten, but too important to ignore.’

    Jonathan Dimbleby’s  Africa consists of more than 50 countries. Each one is unique. With its population of more than a billion, Africa – where humans originated at least 100,000 years ago – is the most culturally and ethnically diverse continent on the planet.

    Starting in Ethiopia where he was the first journalist to report the 1973 famine, Dimbleby discovers the great strides being made to safeguard the country from future catastrophes. In Kenya he finds out how mobile phones are revolutionising small businesses and even the lives of Maasai tribes. In Tanzania he joins in a football match with the judges and guards of Africa’s own Human Rights Commission and meets the street kids in Dar-es-Salaam who are building an international profile for their music.

  6. swagdrips: In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming! The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos. In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty. swagdrips: In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming! The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos. In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty.
    swagdrips: In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming! The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos. In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty.
    swagdrips: In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming! The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos. In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty.
    swagdrips: In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming! The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos. In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty.
    swagdrips: In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming! The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos. In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty.

    swagdrips:

    In Kenya’s Masai tribe, it’s the men not the women who are obsessed with hair grooming!

    The women shave their heads bald or wear very close-cropped styles. But the men spend hours styling and grooming each other’s elaborate hair dos.

    In Masai culture, lion symbolism is important, and a man’s long “mane” represents strength, protection, and masculine beauty.

  7. dailystruggle: Jamhuri Wear  - Magadi Sept 2011 dailystruggle: Jamhuri Wear  - Magadi Sept 2011

    dailystruggle:

    Jamhuri Wear  - Magadi Sept 2011

  8. negistenegest: Carved Swahili doors made in the wood workshops of Lamu Town indicate the wealth and status of the owner of a private house or shop, as well as the importance of a mosque. The carved inscription over this teak wood door is from the Koran, Al Fatiha and As Saff: “In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, Help comes from Allah and victory is near at hand.” from Lamu: Kenya’s Enchanted Island negistenegest: Carved Swahili doors made in the wood workshops of Lamu Town indicate the wealth and status of the owner of a private house or shop, as well as the importance of a mosque. The carved inscription over this teak wood door is from the Koran, Al Fatiha and As Saff: “In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, Help comes from Allah and victory is near at hand.” from Lamu: Kenya’s Enchanted Island

    negistenegest:

    Carved Swahili doors made in the wood workshops of Lamu Town indicate the wealth and status of the owner of a private house or shop, as well as the importance of a mosque. The carved inscription over this teak wood door is from the Koran, Al Fatiha and As Saff: “In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, Help comes from Allah and victory is near at hand.”

    from Lamu: Kenya’s Enchanted Island

  9. fyeahafrica:

    fyeahafrica:

    Wangari Maathai: Money Alone Won’t Help Africa

    Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai argues that well-intentioned aid to Africa may have unexpected negative consequences. She draws from Sharon Stone’s pledge to buy anti-malaria bed nets in Tanzania to explain why money alone will not solve Africa’s problems.

    Wangari Muta Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya’s Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003 was appointed Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources, and Wildlife.

    (click to read more on the youtube page)

    RIP (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011)