Kenya is located approximately on the map as 2N, 38E. (Latitude, Longitude.) Kenya became independent in 1963, and only had three presidents since. The current population is estimated as 30, 339,770. The official language is Swahili.

There were different types of people who lived in Africa. The Gikuyu were people who formed stable farming communities in the south. The Luo people also farmed. The Massai people led nomadic lives and herding cattle.

In 1895, Britain began building a railroad extending from the city of Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the west. The railroad carried British troops and settlers speeding up the conquest of the territory. By 1911, the British took full control of Kenya and many other countries in Africa. They forced Africans to live and work on plantations as slaves or tenant farmers. Massai were forced to live around a dry Rift Valley. Colonial authorities began dividing the country into two districts...