10 Things You Didn't Know About Kenya

Описание: Hello Displorers, Welcome back to another interesting video where we shine the light on the beautiful countries on the African Continent In today’s video, we are taking you all the way to Eastern part of Africa and we are shining the light on one of the most beautiful country in that part of the continent Kenya. Officially referred to as the Republic of Kenya, Kenya the 48th Largest Country in the world with a surface area of about 580,367 square kilometers and a population of about 47.6 Million people. Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the North West, Ethiopia to the North, Somalia to the East, Uganda to the West, Tanzania to the South and the Indian Ocean to the South-East. Its capital and largest city is Nairobi while is oldest city and former capita is mombassa. Kenya got its independence from Britain in 1963 and the official languages of the country are English and Swahili.
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Kenya is a beautiful country with rich culture and also boast of some of the best touristic attraction in Africa and with that said, here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about Kenya.

1. First Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was from Kenya.
Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate (in biology), and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya. Maathai played an active part in the struggle for democracy in Kenya, and belonged to the opposition to Daniel Arap Moi's regime. In 1977 she started a grass-roots movement aimed at countering the deforestation that was threatening the means of subsistence of the agricultural population. The campaign encouraged women to plant trees in their local environments and to think ecologically. The so-called Green Belt Movement spread to other African countries, and contributed to the planting of over thirty million trees. In 2004 She was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

2. Kenya has the Highest Number of medals at the Olympics in Africa
Kenya first participated at the Olympic Games in 1956, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the boycotted 1976 and 1980 Games. Kenya participated in the Winter Olympic Games in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2018. Kenyan athletes have won 103 medals in total, all from boxing and track and field events. In terms of total medals won, the most recent Summer Olympics (2008, 2012, and 2016) have been Kenya's most successful, producing 42 medals between them. The number of Kenyan women winning Olympic medals has risen dramatically, from their first in 1996 to more than half the Kenyan medals in 2016. Increasingly, Kenya-born athletes are immigrating to compete in the Olympics for other countries, most notably Bahrain. In the 2016 Olympics, there were ~20 such athletes, including multiple medal winners. All in total Kenya has won 31 Gold medals, 38 silver and 34 bronze at the summer Olympics putting Kenya at the top of African countries with Medals at the Olympics.

3. Kenya is home to the big Five Animals
The term “Big Five” originally referred to the difficulty in hunting the lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and African buffalo. These five large African mammal species were known to be dangerous and it was considered a feat by trophy hunters to bring them home, today, however, the expression takes on a gentler form, referring to seeing the Big Five—not shooting them—during wildlife safaris on the African continent. If you want to see the big five animals which include, Lions, Rhinos, Leopeard, Elephants and leopards, herd over to Kenya and if you are lucky you can find them during the great migration.

4. Kenya is home to the second highest mountain in Africa
Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Mount Kilimanjaro. The highest peaks of the mountain are Batian (5,199 metres , Nelion (5,188 metres) and Point Lenana (4,985 metres). Mount Kenya is located in the former Eastern and central provinces of Kenya, now Meru, Embu, Laikipia, Kirinyaga, Nyeri and Tharaka Nithi counties, about 16.5 kilometres south of the equator, around 150 kilometres north-northeast of the capital Nairobi.[4] Mount Kenya is the source of the name of the Republic of Kenya. Mount Kenya is a strato-volcano created approximately 3 million years after the opening of the East African rift. Before glaciation, it was 7,000 m high. It was covered by an ice cap for thousands of years. This has resulted in very eroded slopes and numerous valleys radiating from the centre

5. Kenya is the highest producers of black tea in the world
Tea is a major cash crop that is grown in Kenya. Kenyan tea has been the leading major foreign exchange earner for the country. Most tea produced in Kenya is bla

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