Kenya History Pre- colonial history. Around 2000 BC, Cushitic speaking from northern Africa settled in the East Africa that is now Kenya. By the 1st Century AD, the Kenyan coast was frequently by the Arab traders, who due to Kenya’s proximity to the Arabian Peninsula, established Arab and Persian colonial there. The Nilotic and Bantu people also moved into the region during the first millennium AD, and settled inland. The Europeans. Evolving from a mixture of Bantu and Arabic, the …
