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Magical Kenya
    2018-02-26  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

James Baquet

Not too long ago, some silly people in the United States were trying to prove that then-President Obama was born in Kenya, because being born outside of the country would disqualify him for the presidency. He was actually born in Hawaii which at the time of his birth had been a U.S. state for nearly two years, making him perfectly eligible. His father was Kenyan, to be sure, but he himself never set foot in the country until he was an adult.

Kenya is an east African country located west of Somalia and the Indian Ocean, north of Tanzania, east of Uganda, southeast of South Sudan, and south of Ethiopia. It lies directly on both the equator (east-west) and the East African Rift (north-south). In the southern portion of one branch of the rift, down in Tanzania, lies Olduvai Gorge, in which were found in the early 1960s the early human ancestors Homo habilis (who lived, say, 2 million years ago) and Homo erectus (who lived slightly later). Supervising the work was Louis S. B. Leakey, a paleoanthropologist born to British missionary parents in Kenya.

Kenya’s capitol of Nairobi is also its largest city, with more than 3 million in the city proper, and over 6.5 million people in the metropolitan area, as against the national population of nearly 50 million, making it the world’s 28th most-populous nation.

While the coastline is warm and humid, Nairobi is situated on a river that cuts through savannah grasslands, where the climate tends to be cooler (and more so as one approaches the permanently snow-capped Mount Kenya, Africa’s second-highest peak after Tanzania’s famed Mount Kilimanjaro). Continuing west through highlands one reaches Lake Turkana in the north, lying in the Rift Valley, and Lake Victoria — Africa’s largest lake by area (the world’s second largest fresh water lake) — in the southwestern corner.

With expansive wildlife reserves, Kenya is home to a wide range of wildlife, and is considered home to the modern safari, dedicated to hunting animals with cameras rather than rifles.

Vocabulary:

Which word above means:

1. remove the right to participate

2. one who studies ancient humans

3. doing church work in a foreign land

4. having snow on top

5. journey seeking African wildlife

6. having high water content in the air

7. prefix referring to humans

8. able to participate

9. split, opening

10. always, without change

 

 

 

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