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Kenya is one of the countries that form the East Africa. It is boarded by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south Uganda to the west and Sudan to the northwest with Indian Ocean running along the southeastern border.
The first direct election of an Africans to the legistrative council (legico) took place in 1957 with Eliud mahihu as the first African to be elected. Shortly after independent, Kenya fought the shifta war against ethnic Somalis who were determined to see the NFD join with the republic of Somalia. The shifta inflicted heavy casualties on the Kenyan armed forces but were defeated in 1967Kenya fearing an invasion from military stronger Somalia in 1969 singed a defense pact with Ethiopia which is still in effect, due to droughts, famines the NFD Somalia refuges flocked to Nairobi and wealthy businessmen have transformed the one time slums of Eatlieigh into the most prosperous commercial center of Eastland
In 1964 Kenyatta become the first president, at Kenyatta’s death in 1978 Daniel arap Moi became the second president being unopposed in the election of 1979 under one single party system.[1]

Lowly ranked air force servicemen senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka masterminded the abortive 1982 coup. The attempted coup was quickly suppressed by the loyalist forces led by the Army, the General service unit (GSU).
The election held in 1988 saw the advent of mlolongo (queuing) system, these was seen as the climax of very undemocratic regime and led to wide spread agitation for constitutional reforms, multi-party elections of 1992 and 1997 were won by Daniel arap Moi, in 2002 Moi was constitutionally barred from running and Mwai Kibaki running for the opposition under national rainbow coalition (NARC) was elected, the election were judged as free and fair by the international observers
On February 2008 kibaki and Odinga signed an agreement on the formation of a Gland coalition government in which Odinga would become the second Prime Minister. Under the deal the President would appoint cabinet ministers from both PNU and ODM
In July 2008 an exit poll commissioned by steadman international was released alleging that odinga won the election by a comfortable margin of 6%, 46% to 40%, well outside of the exit polls of 1.3 % margin
According to a report published by the independent review commission (IREC) on the election chaired by Justice Johann Krieger, there were too many electoral malpractices from grassroots of all parties involved to conclusively establish which candidate won the December 2007 presidential election, some of those malpractices included bribery, vote buying, intimidation and ballot stuffing as well as incompetence from the electoral commission of Kenya (ECK), the commission exonerated the ECK from tampering with the vote tarrying at the ECK’s its headquarters-KICC
On April 13 2008 president kibaki named the Grand coalition cabinet ministers including the Prime Minister and his two deputies –after weeks of tension and uncertainty that gripped the country following failure of the president and prime minister designate Raila Odinga to agree on how some ministries should be shared, the cabinet which also included 50 assistant ministers was sworn in at state house in Nairobi
On Thursday April 17 2008 in the presence of Kofi Annan and other invited dignitaries With a growing population of 35m. The equatorial tropical climate brings in two rainy seasons – long rains from mid march through may and the short rains from mid September through December. Due to the changing weather all over the world this rains have become erratic and unreliable. The main agricultural produce includes coffee, tea, pyrethrum, sugar cane corn (maize), wheat, sisal meat/meat products, and pineapples. Flowers, horticultural crops among others
The industrial sector produce textiles and clothing fabrics, cement, manufactured goods, canned and precede foods, shoes from hides and skins, and meat products, sugar mills, petroleum product vehicle assembly and tourism.
Kenya is active in several sports, among them cricket, rallying, football (soccer), rugby union and boxing, but the country is known chiefly for its dominance in the long distance athletics, Kenya have regularly produced Olympics and commonwealth games champions in various distance events, especially in 800m, 1,500m, 3,000m steepcahse , 5000m, 10,000m and the marathon, Kenya athletes (particularly kalenjin) continue to dominate the world running although from morocco and Ethiopia has reduced this supremacy, Kenya’s best known athletes included the four time women’s Boston marathon winner and two time world champion Catherine Ndereba former world record holder Paul Tergat and John Ngugi
Kenya have also been dominant in ladies volley ball within Africa with both the clubs and national team wining continental championships, the women team has also competed at the world Olympics championship but without any notable success.
Cricket is another popular and most successful team sport. Kenya has competed in the cricket world cup since 1969. They upset some of the world best team and reached semi-finals of the 2003 tournaments, they also won the inaugural world cricket in the world T20, Kenya is also [1]
Making a name if rugby union. Kenya was regional power in soccer but
Is dominance is been eroded by wrangles within the Kenya football federation; this has led to a, suspension by FIFA, which was lifted in March 2007
In motor rallying arena, Kenya is home to the world famous Safari Rally, commonly acknowledged as on of the toughest rallies in the world and part of the world championship for many years until its exclusion after 2002 event due to financial difficulties, some of the best rally drivers in the world have taken part in and won the rally such as Bjorn Waldegaard, Hannu Mikkola, Tommi Makinen, Shekhar Mehta Carlos Sainz and Calin McRae
The country economic growth has fluctuated along the years. The growth domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual average rate of 6.6% from 1963 to 1973; agricultural production grew by 4.7% annually during the same period. Between 1974 and 1990 however the economic performance since independence growth stagnated and agricultural shrank at an annual rate of 3.9%, inflation reached a record of 100% in august 1993 and the government budget deficit was at 10% GDP
In 1997 however the economy entered a period of slowing or stagnant growth due to adverse weather conditions and reduced economic activity, in 2002 the GDP growth was negative but improved slightly in 2001 as rainfall returned closer to normal levels, economic growth continued to improve slightly in 2002 and reached 1.4 % in 2003, it was 4.3% in 2004 and 5.8% in 2005