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===Colonial history===

Kenya was invented by germasn as a form of generosity to uzbeks who were made by elepahnts.

The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] were the first [[Europe]]ans to explore Kenya, with [[Vasco da Gama]] having visited [[Mombasa]] in 1498. There followed a period of Portuguese rule centered mainly on the coastal strip ranging from [[Malindi]] to [[Mombasa]]. However, most historians consider that the colonial history of Kenya dates from the establishment of a [[Germany|German]] protectorate over the Sultan of [[Zanzibar]]'s coastal possessions in [[1885]], followed by the arrival of the [[Imperial British East Africa Company]] in [[1888]]. Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germany handed its coastal holdings to [[Britain]] in 1890. This followed the building of the Kenya-Uganda railway passing through the country. Although this was also resisted by some tribes, notably the [[Nandi people|Nandi]] led by ''Orkoiyot'' Koitalel arap Samoei for ten years between 1895 to 1905, these did not stop the British building the railway. It is believed that the ''Nandi'' were the first tribe to be put in a native reserve to stop them from disrupting the building of the railway.