Lamu County, the Glossary
Lamu County is a county in Kenya located along the North Coast of the country and is one of the six Coastal Counties in Kenya.[1]
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Abu Chiaba
Abu Mohamed Abu Chiaba (born 1947) is a Kenyan politician who has been a member of the Senate of Kenya since 2013 to 2017.
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Ankish
Ankish is a settlement in Kenya's Lamu County.
Anuar Loitiptip
Anuar Loitiptip was a Kenyan politician who was the senator for Lamu County, from 2017 — 2022.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Ashuwei
Ashuwei is a Bajuni sea settlement in Kenya's Lamu County.
Aweer people
The Aweer (also known as the Boni and Sanye) are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the Coast Province in southeastern Kenya.
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Bitumen
Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.
Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Coast Province
The Coast Province (Mkoa wa Pwani) was one of Kenya's eight provinces.
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
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Counties of Kenya
The Counties of Kenya (Kaunti za Kenya) are geographical units created by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya as the new units of devolved government.
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Dodori National Reserve
Dodori National Reserve is a protected area located in Lamu East District of Coast Province in Kenya.
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Dugong
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.
East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
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East Africa Time
East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa.
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Elephant shrew
Elephant shrews, also called jumping shrews or sengis, are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea.
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Faza
Faza is a small town on the North coast on Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's former Coast Province.
Food security
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
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Garissa County
Garissa County is an administrative county in Kenya. Lamu County and Garissa County are counties of Kenya.
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Gravel road
A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.
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Island
An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.
Issa Timamy
Issa Abdallah Issa Timamy (born 12 September 1958) is a Kenyan politician.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
Kikuyu people
The Kikuyu (also Agĩkũyũ/Gĩkũyũ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to East Africa Central Kenya.
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Kilifi County
Kilifi County was formed in 2010 as a result of a merger of Kilifi District and Malindi District, Kenya. Lamu County and Kilifi County are counties of Kenya.
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Kiunga, Kenya
Kiunga is a division in the Lamu District of Coast Province located close to the Indian Ocean coast of northern Kenya, and only 15 kilometres to the border with Somalia.
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Kore people
The Kore of Lamu are a small people living on Lamu Island on the northern Kenya coast.
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Lamu
Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya.
Lamu Archipelago
The Lamu Archipelago is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs.
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Lamu County
Lamu County is a county in Kenya located along the North Coast of the country and is one of the six Coastal Counties in Kenya. Lamu County and Lamu County are counties of Kenya.
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Lamu East Constituency
Lamu East Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya.
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Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that, when complete, will be the country's second transport corridor.
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Lamu West Constituency
Lamu West Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.
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Milimani East
Milimani East is a settlement in Kenya's Lamu County.
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Milimani West
Milimani West is a settlement in Kenya's Lamu County.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
Mkunumbi
Mkunumbi is a historic Swahili settlement in Kenya's Coast Province.
Mombasa County
Mombasa County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. Its capital is Mombasa. In terms of economy it is second after Nairobi. Initially it was one of the former districts of Kenya but in 2013 it was reconstituted as a county, on the same boundaries. It is the smallest county in Kenya, covering an area of 229.7 km2 excluding 65 km2 of water mass. Lamu County and Mombasa County are counties of Kenya.
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Mpeketoni
Mpeketoni is a town in Lamu County, on the Kenyan coast.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Oromo people
The Oromo people (pron. Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya.
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Pandanguo
Pandanguo is a settlement in Kenya's Lamu County.
Pate Island
Pate (Paté) Island is located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya, to which it belongs.
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Pelican
Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.
Population growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.
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Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
Sea turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira.
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Shakani
Shakani is a small coastal village in Lamu County, Kenya.
Somali people
The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
Suba people (Kenya)
The Suba (Abasuba) are a heterogeneous Bantu group of people in Kenya with an amalgamation of clans drawn from their main tribes Ganda people, Luhya people, and Soga who speak the Suba language that is closely similar to the Ganda language spare some lexical items borrowed from Okoth-Okombo, Duncan (1999) 'Language and ethnic identity: the case of the Abasuba', ''Kenya Journal of Sciences'' (Series C, Humanities and Social Sciences) 5, 1, 21–38.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
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Swahili people
The Swahili people (WaSwahili, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area encompassing the Zanzibar archipelago and mainland Tanzania's seaboard, littoral Kenya, northern Mozambique, the Comoros Islands, and northwest Madagascar.
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Tana River County
Tana River County is a county in the former Coast Province of Kenya. Lamu County and Tana River County are counties of Kenya.
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Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
Witu, Kenya
Witu is a small market town in the Lamu County of Kenya, East Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamu_County
Also known as Arosen, Bajumwali.
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