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Nature is a wildlife television series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. It has been distributed to United States public television stations by the PBS television service since its debut on October 10, 1982. Some episodes may appear in syndication on many PBS member stations around the United States and Canada, and on the Discovery Channel. As of 2022, the series airs on Wednesdays on PBS ...
Elsa Majimbo (born June 29, 2001) is a Kenyan comedian from Nairobi. [1] Her satirical monologues usually feature her eating potato chips, leaning back to a pillow and using a pair of tiny 1990's sunglasses as a prop. Majimbo gained recognition in early 2020 during the COVID-19 quarantine period by making home-based comedy videos.
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya.
They made their home together in Kenya. [3] Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden. George later realized the lioness was ...
Mara the Lioness (1965–1974) was an animal actor who appeared as Elsa in the 1966 movie Born Free, based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness raised by George and Joy Adamson. Mara was born in the wild in 1965, a premature cub abandoned by her mother during a violent rain storm.
In the spring of 2011, the World Bank urged Kenya’s finance ministry to end the evictions until the bank could help the government work out a plan for addressing the Sengwer’s concerns. According to bank officials, Kenyan authorities agreed to stop the evictions until they found new land where the Sengwer could relocate.
Led the Kikuyu Central Association, Kenya's first all-African political organization. With Joseph Kang'ethe and later Jomo Kenyatta in 1924. Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi: 31 October 1920: 18 February 1957: Leader of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army and the Mau Mau Uprising: Martin Shikuku: 1933: 22 August 2012: Former Butere MP. Paul Ngei: 18 ...
Douglas Kanja Kirocho is a Kenyan police officer and the current inspector general of the National Police Service of Kenya. Appointed by President William Ruto and confirmed through parliamentary vetting, Kanja took office on September 19, 2024.