The sites listed below were chosen for their utility in providing
information (either brief or extensive) as well as directories
and more extensive portal pages concerning aspects of Kenyan
life and culture. An ever-growing Kenyan expatriate community
has been created around the globe. Many of the following web
sites stem from these Kenyan communities.
For Library of Congress contact information and materials, consult
the Kenya
Country page of the African Section of the African and Middle
Eastern Division. The Library
of Congress Online Catalog is available at http://catalog.loc.gov
. To track bills and other Congressional materials having to
do with the topic, consult the Library’s Thomas
Legislative Information page at: http://thomas.loc.gov.
Africa
South of the Sahara -- Kenya (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/kenya.html)
This site created by Karen Fung at Stanford University offers a wealth of information
and links to other sites and documents.
All-Links-Kenyan.com (http://www.all-links-kenyan.com/)
Although a bit commercial in its approach, this site does offer links to interesting
sites which are difficult to find on other general sites including links to Kenyan
radio broadcasts and to those originating in other African countries.
CIA -- The
World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
An annual publication of the CIA, contains up-to-date information on all aspects
of the political, social and military history of a particular country.
Country Reports about ... (http://www.countryreports.org/)
Offers links to sites about many countries by such subjects as government, the
military, economy, the weather, etc.
Development Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/)
“The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals
build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty.” Search
by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites
and documents.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.
Infoplease (http://www.infoplease.com/)
Part of the electronic Learning Network, this homepage allows searches by country
which yield articles in almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical works,
etc. Additional reference links are provided as well.
Information Kenya Channel (http://www.travelite.com/)
Offers a wide range of information from recipes for a “traditional” Kenyan
meal to where to shop in Kenya, to information about the national economy.
Islamic Calendar
Converter (http://wwwcgi.umr.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/msaumr/hijri)
This English language website not only converts the present Gregorian date, in
common use in the West, to its modern Hijra equivalent (in common use in the
Islamic World), it also provides a mechanism, based on software developed by
Waleed A. Muhanna, to convert all past dates from Gregorian-Hijra or Hijra-Gregorian.
Kenya
Page (University of Pennsylvania) (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African%5FStudies/Country%5FSpecific/Kenya.html)
Lists links to many web sites concerning Kenya.
KenyaTourism.com (http://www.kenyatourism.com/)
“This is a collaborative site for providing information on Kenyan travel
and tourism.” Visitors to the site are requested to send in reports about
their experiences in Kenya. Also provides a number of links to sites offering
a broader scope of information.
Kenyan Embassy in Washington D.C: Ubalozi
wa Kenya Washington D.C (http://www.kenyaembassy.com/)
A wealth of information is provided with articles, links and graphics.
Kenyaweb (http://www.kenyaweb.com/index.php)
Arranges web links by broad subject and is also searchable by key word. In particular,
the section on history is an excellent resource.
Lifestyle Opportunity Organization (http://www.lifestyleopportunity.org/index)
Searchable by country and subject, the site offers access to many interesting
sites.
Lonely Planet - Destinations (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/)
Search by country to find information on travel, attractions, history, culture,
and environment. of that location.
MagicalKenya.com (http://www.magicalkenya.com/default.nsf/)
Offers a wealth of information for the traveler including visual tours of points
of interest.
RCBowen.com Kenya page (http://kenya.rcbowen.com)
Offers a wide variety of information from biographies of Kenyan political leaders
to news headlines and the Kenyan constitution.
Science and Engineering Resource Center:
ikenya.ws (http://www.cyber-africa.net/)
This site offers links arranged by broad subjects to many sites with a Kenyan
focus.
U.S. Department of State (http://state.gov/)
Numerous documents concerning diplomatic and international relations, travel
advice and warnings relating to the countries of the world are available on the
State Department’s official site by searching under a particular country’s
name.
United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several
languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization
as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations,
etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.
United Nations ReliefWeb (http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/ByCountry/)
“ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)... serving the information needs of the humanitarian
relief community” Offers news updates to crisis situations around the world
and includes information about refugee camps and other relief efforts.
United States. Agency for International Development.
Development Experience Clearinghouse
(DEC) (http://www.dec.org)
“The purpose of the DEC is to strengthen USAID's development projects,
activities, and programs by making ... development experience documents available
to USAID offices and mission staff, PVO's, NGO's, universities and research institutions,
developing countries, and the public worldwide.”
United States. Library
of Congress. Virtual Reference Shelf (http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html)
The Library of Congress has mounted this useful site on its home page to give
scholars and researchers access to common online sources which are excellent
for initial stages of research. These online tools are organized by subject and
format, e.g., "Almanacs and Fast Facts," "Directories," "Libraries," etc.
World Desk Reference (http://uk.dk.com/)
Searchable by country, this is the online version of the handbook with more than
5000 illustrations and maps.
Xkenya.com (http://www.xkenya.com/)
Offers links to a large number of sites organized into about fifty subject groups. |