Talk:History of Kenya

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This page is under the suspicion of copyvio. From the Wikipedia:Village pump#Plagiarism:

hi my name is mandy and i'm doing a project on kenya, just to let you know, http://www.mapzones.com/world/africa/kenya/historyindex.php - has almost the exact information you do, i know that this is plagarising and i don't know whose plagarising who, but i thought i let you know.

1. Kenya: Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids like Homo habilis and Homo erectus lived in Kenya 2.6 million years ago
2. Kenya: Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids lived in the area 2.6 million years ago.

Looks pretty similiar →Raul654 17:50, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

I did a little more tracing. That info was copied into our kenya article from the History of Kenya article. Those sentences were added during this edit by a bot. →Raul654 17:54, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

I suspect that both are derived from some sort of public domain source like the CIA factbook or such. Bkonrad | Talk 18:04, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Such as this from the U.S. State department Bkonrad | Talk 18:10, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Broader perspective on colonization

Does someone have time to review this article and add its narrative and perspective on the effects of colonization to this article? ZinnFann 00:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)