Kenya

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Etymology: From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist, including * from Kikuyu kere nyaga (“white mountain”) (because it is snow-capped) * from Kamba kii nyaa (“ostrich mountain”) * from Kikuyu kĩrĩma (“mountain”)

1. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.

   “The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was "discovered" on the way.”

   “Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.”