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Tabaka

2021-02-11 08:33:57

The Republic of Kenya is named after Mount Kenya.The earliest recorded version of the modern name was written by German explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf in the 19th century. ...

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GUEST_K84RZVjkG
02-12 00:33:44
true point noted
MichaelMaweu
02-13 13:30:06
it's pathetic and lacking manners for these foreigners to come here and claim they were the first to discover this and that!! Weren't there ppl living in those places prior to the European's coming?
+254-072373****
02-11 16:55:20
Your point was understood ,so the locals are the ones who used the word Kenia but Krapf pronounced it as Kenya.. and the name remains...
GUEST_qd1aW4pOW
02-12 12:52:08
Who called it Kenya?
KatheePeter
02-12 08:49:51
now in real sense it's not craft who discovered Mt Kenya, because locals lived with it before a mzungu came,And who is the first kenyan to see Mt Kenya?did they record that?
+254-71628****
02-11 18:46:09
Upto now German language for Kenya is Kenia.

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