Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is a Kenyan politician who was the tenth Vice-President of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Musyoka served in the government under President Daniel arap Moi and was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998;subsequently,under President Mwai Kibaki,he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004,then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 presidential election,after which he was appointed Vice-President by Kibaki in January 2008.
The Kamba or Akamba people are a Bantu ethnic group who predominantly live in the area of Kenya stretching from Nairobi to Tsavo and north to Embu,in the southern part of the former Eastern Province. This land is called Ukambani and constitutes Makueni County,Kitui County and Machakos County. They also form the second largest ethnic group in 8 counties including Nairobi and Mombasa counties.
Peter John Mitchell Thomas,Baron Thomas of Gwydir,was a British Conservative politician. He was the first Welshman to become Chairman of the Conservative Party,serving from 1970 to 1972,and the first Conservative to serve as Secretary of State for Wales,holding that office from 1970 to 1974.
Abdul Mati Klarwein was a French painter of German origin best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.
Kitui is a town and capital of Kitui County in Kenya,180 kilometres east of Nairobi and 105 kilometres east of Machakos. it covers an area approximately 30,496.4 km squares and lies between latitudes 0°10 South and 3°0 South and longitudes 37°50 East and 39°0 East. It borders seven counties i.e Machakos and Makueni counties to the west,Tana River County to the east and south-east,Taita Taveta County to the south,Embu to the north-west,and Tharaka-Nithi and Meru counties to the north. Kitui became the headquarters of Kitui County after the adoption of the new constitution and the devolved government.
Machakos County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. Its capital is Machakos. Its largest town is Machakos,the country's first administrative headquarters. The county had a population of 1,421,932 as of 2019. The county borders Nairobi and Kiambu counties to the west,Embu to the north,Kitui to the east,Makueni to the south,Kajiado to the south west,and Muranga and Kirinyaga to the north west.
Charity Kaluki Ngilu is a Kenyan politician and the second governor elected for Kitui County. She unsuccessfully vied to be President of the Republic of Kenya in 1997. She served as Minister for Health from 2003 until 2007 and Minister of Water and Irrigation from April 2008 to 2013. She also served as Cabinet Secretary for Land,Housing and Urban Development from 2013 until 2015.
Makueni County is a county in the former Eastern Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Wote. The county has a population of 987,653. The county lies between Latitude 1°35' and 2°59' South and Longitude 37°10' and 38°30' East. It borders Machakos to the North,Kitui to the East,Taita Taveta to the South and Kajiado to the West and covers an area of 8,008.9 km2.
Kitui County is a county in the former Eastern Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kitui,although Mwingi is also another major urban centre. The county has a population of 1,136,187. and an area of 30,430 km2. It lies between latitudes 0°10 South and 3°0 South and longitudes 37°50 East and 39°0 East.
St. Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions is a Catholic society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men composed of missionary priests. Its headquarters is at Kiltegan,County Wicklow in Ireland. Its members add the nominal initials SPS after their names to indicate their membership in the Society. The motto in Latin and English of the Society is Caritas Christi Urget Nos and Christ's love compels us,,respectively.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kitui is a Diocese located in the city of Kitui in the Ecclesiastical province of Nairobi in Kenya.
The BaháʼíFaith in Kenya began with three individuals. First,Richard St. Barbe Baker took a constructive engagement with the indigenous religion of Kenyans to a United Kingdom conference on religions,where,in sympathy with his efforts,he was presented with the BaháʼíFaith and became a convert. The second individual was Enoch Olinga who traveled to Kenya when he served in the British Royal Army Educational Corps. The third came twenty-one years after the first and marked the arrival of the BaháʼíFaith in Kenya. In 1945 Mrs. Marguerite Preston arrived in Kenya. She had been a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom from 1939 through 1945 when she married a Kenyan tea grower and moved to Kenya where the couple had three children within two years and she was the only Baháʼíin the nation. The Association of Religion Data Archives estimated about 429,000 Baháʼís in Kenya in 2005.
Mwingi North Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of eight constituencies in Kitui County. It used to be one of two constituencies in Mwingi District. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections.
The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya,commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa,was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British Crown colony in 1920. Technically,the "Colony of Kenya" referred to the interior lands,while a 16 km (10 mi) coastal strip,nominally on lease from the Sultan of Zanzibar,was the "Protectorate of Kenya",but the two were controlled as a single administrative unit. The colony came to an end in 1963 when a black majority government was elected for the first time and eventually declared independence as Kenya.
Mwingi South Constituency was a former electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of the eight constituencies in the Kitui County and is now known as Mwingi Central.
General elections were held in Kenya on 21 March 1988. At the time,the county was a one-party state with the Kenya African National Union as the sole legal party. The size of the National Assembly was expanded from 158 to 188 seats prior to the elections. Although the post of President of Kenya was due to be elected at the same time as the National Assembly,Daniel arap Moi was the sole candidate and was automatically elected without a vote being held. Following the elections,a further 12 members were appointed by President Moi.
Kitili Maluki Mwendwa is a former Chief Justice of Kenya. He served between 1968–1971 and was succeeded by Sir James Wicks.
Humphrey Slade,EBS,KBE was a British-born Kenyan lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council and later the National Assembly between 1952 and 1970. He was the inaugural Speaker of the National Assembly,from 1967 to 1970. He had his residential house in Nyandarua next to Karima Girls High School
Eliud Ngala Mwendwa was a Kenyan teacher and politician. He was a member of the Kenyan delegation to the 1960 Lancaster House Conference,which negotiated the country's independence from the United Kingdom. Mwendwa then served as Minister for Labour within President Jomo Kenyatta's first post-independence 15-member cabinet. He ultimately served as the Minister for Labour and Social Services from 1963 until 1974 under Kenyatta.
The Anglican dioceses of Mombasa are the Anglican presence in and around Mombasa and south-east Kenya;they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Maseno,of Mount Kenya,and of Nakuru.
