Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | software | display | web page | font | number | website | computer icon | operating system OCR: CULTURGRAM Kenya 66 In 1887 the British East Africa Company leased the Kenyan coast from the sultan of Zanzibar. 99 Outline Close The People Historical Overview People have lived in what is now Kenya for as long as 2 million years. The first known inhabitants were hunting groups (Dorobo or Bushmen) who lived on the vast plains of the area. They mixed with groups of the Bantu-speaking peoples from western Africa who had migrated east. It is estimated that by the 15th century the Bantu-speaking peoples covered much of eastern Africa. More than 50 percent of Kenya's current ethnic groups have Bantu origins. Other peoples from Arabia and North Africa also settled in eastern Africa and were assimilated into the culture. The Kiswahili language was developed by Bantu-speaking people of the east African coast known as the Waswahili. From about AD 400, merchants from the Persian Gulf, Arabia, and India traveled regularly to East
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