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The Arabs were the only non-African (negro) peoples raching the interior of the country before the European explorers, who arrived in the latter half of the nineteenth century^ in search of the headwaters of the white Nile, which were duly discovered to be in Lake Victoria.
With the building of the railroad from Mombassa to Uganda by the British, around the turn of the century, many laborers, and others, were brought from India, and even after the railroad was completed, most remained, to form the nucleus of Konya’s Indian colony, numbering around 40,000 today. They are the skilled artisans and shopkeepers of Kenya. Many retained their British citizenship when Kenya became independent in 1963, and now find themselves virtually stateless, since Great Britian now limits the number of its former colonials who may come into Britain.
Europeans, most of them English and South Africans, came in to settle on farms in the early twentieth century, around the time Kenya became a British colony. Today Europeans number probably no more than 15,000. Many left-'-irt^he *time <e#*.‘the Mau-Mau uprisings and Independence, after which there was considerable confiscation of land holdings by the government.
The remainder of Kenya’s ten million population, about 95%, are African, 84% of whom live in rural areas. Most of Kenya is ‘rural area’. Only Nairobi and Mombassa could be classified as cities. There are a few towns established by the white settlers; otherwise there are only tiny cross-road villages, and open country. There are some forty different African tribes in Kenya.
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