Rusinga Island, with an elongated shape approximately 10 miles (16 km) from end to end and 3 miles (5 km) at its widest point, lies in the eastern part...
9 KB (1,112 words) - 04:26, 25 November 2024
SS Rusinga is a cargo and passenger Lake Victoria ferry in East Africa. Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built her and...
4 KB (249 words) - 19:25, 20 May 2024
migrated to Kenya from Uganda and settled on the two Lake Victoria islands of Rusinga and Mfangano, others also settled on the mainland areas including Gembe...
19 KB (2,488 words) - 03:49, 21 December 2024
Rusinga Cultural Festival is an annual two-day celebration of the culture of the Abasuba people of Kenya. It is held on the last Thursday and Friday before...
10 KB (958 words) - 19:15, 19 January 2021
Kilifi County. He was born in 1972 on Ngodhe Island 10 km off west of Rusinga Island in the Lake Victoria of Homa Bay County Kenya. He is known for attracting...
10 KB (826 words) - 18:41, 21 November 2024
sp. 'Rusinga oral sheller' is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae. It is endemic to Kenya. Kaufman, L. (1996). "Ptyochromis sp. nov. 'Rusinga oral...
1 KB (53 words) - 20:21, 17 November 2021
Nyanza Gulf, it is a shallow inlet and is connected to the main lake by Rusinga Channel (3 mi (4.8 km) wide), which is partly masked from the main body...
1 KB (151 words) - 14:20, 22 September 2023
honour. Mboya left a wife and five children. He is buried in a mausoleum on Rusinga Island, which was built in 1970. Mboya's role in Kenya's politics and transformation...
24 KB (2,540 words) - 04:31, 25 November 2024
Ndhiwa constituencies. It has five electoral wards namely; Mfangano Island, Rusinga Island, Kasgunga, Gembe and Lambwe. The current Member of Parliament is...
4 KB (159 words) - 21:08, 22 August 2024
described in 1983, having been taken from a site called Bovid Hill on Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria. Butchered bones found in 2011 with stone tools...
5 KB (356 words) - 23:06, 30 June 2024
of Kenya. The fossil was discovered in rocks of the Hiwegi Formation on Rusinga Island in 1949, but was subsequently only mentioned once in scientific...
10 KB (1,062 words) - 23:45, 4 November 2024
Proconsul have since been discovered. The Leakey expedition of 1947–1948 to Rusinga Island in Lake Victoria uncovered more species of Proconsul. Mary Leakey...
5 KB (694 words) - 08:40, 24 April 2024
leakeyi is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid known from the Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya. Rusingaceros is known from the holotype KNM-RU 2821, an...
2 KB (225 words) - 15:04, 19 October 2024
Buvuma Islands. Rusinga is rich in fossils, and Mary Leakey found the skull of Proconsul africanus on the island. The Miocene floras of Rusinga and Mfwanganu...
6 KB (774 words) - 09:01, 11 July 2024
Day Eid al-Fitr Eid al-Adha Huduma Day Diwali Mashujaa Day Jamhuri Day Rusinga (Cultural) Festival Christmas Day Boxing Day Religion Catholicism Anglicanism...
64 KB (6,518 words) - 15:49, 13 December 2024
Cave. In October 1948, Mary discovered a Proconsul africanus skull on Rusinga Island. Mary Leakey also recorded and published the Kondoa Irangi Rock...
19 KB (2,166 words) - 00:56, 1 July 2024
(1913) Kildare⛵ (1913) Kommuna⛵ (1913) Kyle⚓ (1913) North Head⚓ (1913) Rusinga⚓️ (1913) Stord I⛵ (1913) Suur Tõll⛵ (1913) Usoga⛵ (1913) Naramata⚓ (1914)...
108 KB (12,297 words) - 22:46, 15 November 2024
(1913) Kildare⛵ (1913) Kommuna⛵ (1913) Kyle⚓ (1913) North Head⚓ (1913) Rusinga⚓️ (1913) Stord I⛵ (1913) Suur Tõll⛵ (1913) Usoga⛵ (1913) Naramata⚓ (1914)...
76 KB (8,248 words) - 09:57, 22 December 2024
Afrotragulus parvus (previously "D." parvus Withworth 1958) (early Miocene) from Rusinga Island, Kenya Genus Siamotragulus Siamotragulus sanyathanai Thomas, Ginsburg...
24 KB (2,315 words) - 19:21, 18 December 2024
Day Eid al-Fitr Eid al-Adha Huduma Day Diwali Mashujaa Day Jamhuri Day Rusinga (Cultural) Festival Christmas Day Boxing Day Religion Catholicism Anglicanism...
2 KB (89 words) - 06:12, 26 July 2024
Pachyhyrax championi, a large fossil hyrax from the Miocene of Rusinga, Kenya (Natural History Museum collection)...
39 KB (3,346 words) - 15:07, 21 December 2024
present on Lake Victoria in 2018, both in private hands: SS Nyanza and SS Rusinga, though Nyanza is suspended from operation in 2018. The 20th century ferries...
34 KB (3,657 words) - 00:10, 18 September 2024
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's mausoleum in Bondo, Kenya Tom Mboya Mausoleum, Rusinga Island, Homa Bay County, Kenya Palm Grove Cemetery in Monrovia, Liberia...
37 KB (3,528 words) - 14:45, 20 December 2024
included performances by the children, and trips to see plays. She attended Rusinga International School in Kenya and acted in school plays. At the age of...
117 KB (8,972 words) - 07:09, 16 December 2024
the local population. These stations would include Gendia, Wire Hill, Rusinga Island, Kanyadoto, Karungu, Kisii (Nyanchwa), and Kamagambo. In 1913, he...
15 KB (1,171 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2024
(1913) Kildare⛵ (1913) Kommuna⛵ (1913) Kyle⚓ (1913) North Head⚓ (1913) Rusinga⚓️ (1913) Stord I⛵ (1913) Suur Tõll⛵ (1913) Usoga⛵ (1913) Naramata⚓ (1914)...
71 KB (8,447 words) - 03:14, 1 December 2024
Buganda in the mid 18th century and settled in South Nyanza, especially at Rusinga and Mfangano islands. Luo speakers crossed Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria...
79 KB (9,909 words) - 02:54, 11 December 2024
(1913) Kildare⛵ (1913) Kommuna⛵ (1913) Kyle⚓ (1913) North Head⚓ (1913) Rusinga⚓️ (1913) Stord I⛵ (1913) Suur Tõll⛵ (1913) Usoga⛵ (1913) Naramata⚓ (1914)...
17 KB (1,866 words) - 14:56, 11 April 2024
(1913) Kildare⛵ (1913) Kommuna⛵ (1913) Kyle⚓ (1913) North Head⚓ (1913) Rusinga⚓️ (1913) Stord I⛵ (1913) Suur Tõll⛵ (1913) Usoga⛵ (1913) Naramata⚓ (1914)...
137 KB (15,070 words) - 02:35, 2 December 2024
(1913) Kildare⛵ (1913) Kommuna⛵ (1913) Kyle⚓ (1913) North Head⚓ (1913) Rusinga⚓️ (1913) Stord I⛵ (1913) Suur Tõll⛵ (1913) Usoga⛵ (1913) Naramata⚓ (1914)...
74 KB (8,244 words) - 05:07, 18 November 2024