Month: December 2013
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New Railway lines around Nairobi.
Kenya railways has proposed new railway services from Kiserian to Ngong to Nairobi, and Ruai to Nairobi. Also, From Kikuyu to Nairobi. These will reduce the traffic jam on roads leading to the city. Effect on land price. Land prices around Nairobi are excessively high due to high demand since there is little or no…
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Pyramids of Giza Architecture. Nubian Domes inspiration.
These were constructed 3000 years ago by Black Africans who originally inhabited Africa. By this time, Arabs and Europeans had not began to travel and colonise Africa. A DNA study carried out on Pharaoh Ramses shows that his DNA is similar to that found in Sub Saharan Africa as shown in the map below. http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8268…
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Railway Station Architecture.
Kenya recently broke ground for construction of a new railway line from Mombasa to Uganda and Rwanda. This will call for design of useful railway stations that are in line with international trends. Kenyan solutions and designs will need to be innovative and original so as to serve the people well. Below are a few…
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Ingombe Ilede City, Zambia. 7th to 11thc Century AD
http://zambianeye.com/archives/11556 By Chimuka Moono Hanyama Zambian history is littered with a lot of literature on different national heritage sites. Some of these include Isamu Pati in Kalomo, Ingombe Ilede in Gwembe valley, and Broken Hillman in Kabwe. Ingombe Ilede is a historical site which was discovered in 1964 by government workers who were constructing a…
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ANCIENT CHINESE COIN FOUND ON KENYAN ISLAND BY FIELD MUSEUM EXPEDITION
source http://fieldmuseum.org/about/ancient-chinese-coin-found-kenyan-island-field-museum-expedition A joint expedition of scientists led by Chapurukha M. Kusimba of The Field Museum and Sloan R. Williams of the University of Illinois at Chicago has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda that shows trade existed between China and east Africa decades before European explorers set sail and…
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City of Meroe, Sudan. 300BC
This ancient city is located in Sudan towards the Eritrean side. It consisted of over 200 Nubian pyramis. These can be seen on Google map below https://maps.google.co.ke/maps?q=Meroe&ll=16.938305,33.749576&spn=0.002899,0.005284&hq=Meroe&t=h&z=18 https://maps.google.co.ke/maps?q=Meroe&ll=16.938305,33.749576&spn=0.002899,0.005284&hq=Meroe&t=h&z=18 The city was reknown for Iron smelting. Also, international trade mainly in glass beads, textiles, gold and livestock was a major economic activity. Francis Gichuhi Kamau, Architect.…
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Great Zimbabwe. 12th to 16th Century BC Architecture.
The Great Zimbabwe city was built between the 12th and the 16th Century AD. It was a city with an economy based on trade, mainly Gold, ivory and livestock. It can still be viewed today from Google maps. Below is the link to the google map cordinates. https://maps.google.co.ke/maps?q=great+zimbabwe+history&ll=-20.272634,30.934963&spn=0.002843,0.005284&t=h&z=18 https://maps.google.co.ke/maps?q=great+zimbabwe+history&ll=-20.272634,30.934963&spn=0.002843,0.005284&t=h&z=18 From the aerial view, the planning…