The East African
Monday February 22 2021
The boda boda menace began during the 2017 election year when they were used for political rallies and were deemed job creators for the youth. PHOTO | RUPI MANGAT
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The introduction of motorbikes in the historical sultanate threatens the very fabric of its being it even risks losing its status as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
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For centuries, the call of the muezzin, inviting the faithful to prayer in Lamu, the oldest Swahili settlement on the East African shores, has been the first sound at dawn. However, today another sound can be heard. That of motorbikes, popularly called
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For years, the head of a queen sat in storage in a building in Berlin. Her face is smooth, but her head is intricately engraved and topped with a crown befitting a
lyoba a matriarch figure from the Kingdom of Benin, in present day Nigeria.
Carved in the early 16
th century, it is one of more than a thousand metal sculptures looted by British soldiers as they plundered Benin City in 1897. In the century since, the so-called Benin Bronzes have been bought and sold by museums and private collectors across Europe and North America, and today they are among the most coveted African artifacts in the world.
Why you should become a Kenya Museum Society member
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The Kenya Museum Society (KMS) is a non-profit organization set up in 1970 to support and promote the National Museums of Kenya.
Visitors and citizens alike are encouraged to get the KMS membership. By being a member of KMS, you are helping to preserve and promote Kenyan history, culture and artifacts, while having fun at activities and events in the company of people who enjoy the same interests as you.
KMS members are entitled to free entry to all national and regional Museums, prehistoric sites and monuments around Kenya.
The National Museum of Kenya (NMK) is the custodian of Kenya’s natural and cultural heritage that manages three World Heritage Sites, twenty-one museums and over two hundred sites and monuments across the country.
Lifestyle diseases on the rise as public shuns native dishes 1 month ago
Makueni agriculture CEC Bob Kisyula holds a Baobab fruit in his office at Wote, Makueni county. [Stephen Nzioka, Standard]
Nutrition experts are leading the charge to get Kenyans to take up eating more indigenous foods to control the rise of non-communicable diseases and malnutrition. Ruth Kaloki, a lead nutritionist at Makueni County Referral Hospital, said rising cases of diseases like diabetes, some cancers, heart disease, stroke and obesity point to the need for a healthy diet.
Many of the required nutrients are found in native foods, she said, but a majority of the population largely consume rice and maize. Veronica Kanini, a farmer in Thange A, Kathiani, Kibwezi East sub-county, said she grows pumpkin, sorghum, amaranth and cowpeas, among other traditional crops.
Global Virus Network (GVN) Adds Four Preeminent Academic Institutions To Strengthen Global Collaboration In Viral Research And Response To Pandemics
The Four New GVN Members Form Three New Centers of Excellence and One Affiliate from Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and North America
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BALTIMORE, Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Global Virus Network (GVN), comprising foremost experts around the world in every class of virus causing disease in humans and some animals, today announced the addition of three new Centers of Excellence including the
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands and