Talk:Mombasa

message: The Finnish singer Taiska's 1970's hit "Mombasa" is not about the city. The name of the city is mentioned in the song and is the title of the song, but the song is more about a vacation romance on the beach.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.252.5.66 (talk) 14:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Miscellaneous

message: This page is innacurate.  Mombasa is not a city.  The only two cities in Kenya are Nairobi and Kisumu.  How do you report innacuracies in Wikipages?
20 October 2005
: This talk page is a good place. Do you have a source for your statement about the Kenyan cities? There's also sometimes a difference between "official" cities, awarded that status by the state, and settlements that most people would call "cities". By the latter definition, Mombasa would be called a "city". — Matt Crypto 11:37, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not the quickest possible reply, but at least I have an answer. There is only one city in Kenya, that is Nairobi. Mombasa is a municipality. In Kenya, municipality has a rather unique meaning, it is an urban centre classified between city and town. Further details behind this link and here. Julius Sahara 05:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  One source puts it this way: "There are currently three cities in Kenya, namely, Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. Mombasa and Kisumu were elevated to city status in 2001 though they are yet to get their charters." (Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est – Supplementary Issue September, 2006.) — Matt Crypto 08:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: City status of Mombasa

message: I took the liberty of adding information on Mombasa's role in the Halo franchise to the article. The city has played a major role in at least three titles (Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST) and has been rendered in the series at least fourteen times:
* In five campaign levels (Outskirts, Metropolis, Tsavo Highway, Floodgate, and the entirety of Halo 3: ODST)
* In six multiplayer maps (District, Headlong, Terminal, Tombstone, Turf, and Longshore). Additional maps are set in the region surrounding the city, including Zanzibar, Voi, and the jungles near the Tanzanian border.
* In comics ("Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa", from the Halo Graphic Novel) and in video (the short "Another Day at the Beach")
* In print, for a multi-page discussion of the city's design aesthetic in The Art of Halo
I think it's safe to say that New Mombasa is the most well-known representation of the city to ever exist in popular culture. This fact, along with numerous references to the New Mombasa environment in both gaming outlets and mainstream Kenyan press, is enough to merit at least a brief mention in this article.
(I also resisted the impulse to add too many details to the section, opting instead to link to the Halo Wikia article for the city, which has much more information as well as pictures.) --Jordan117 (talk) 07:30, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Mombasa 

message: 31-May-09: The Mombasa climate table (as of May 2009) makes no sense, with the coldest low temperatures occurring on the hottest days: low 16.5 (62F) when high 35.5 (96F). Many other towns in Kenya have the coldest lows on the colder days, heating the day by only +12 C degrees (+22 F). Compare to Mombasa-climate table in article "Climate of Kenya" with coldest days in July-August. I will check other sources this week to determine accurate data, and then cite 2 independent sources. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bizarre low temperatures

message: The tourist site  says Zanzibar leased Mombasa to Britain in 1895. Britain administered Mombasa as part of Kenya until independence in 1963. 
Dinesen in her Out of Africa (1938) writes on page 225 (1992 edition) that Berkeley wanted to trade in "Lamu, Mombasa and Zanzibar." This might suggest she regarded Mombasa as not part of Zanzibar at that time, otherwise why list them separately?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.172.186.229 (talk) 22:54, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  National status of Mombasa 1895 to 1963 

message: Where on earth do these uncited population figures come from?  The text states that the 1999 census figure for the "city" was 727,842.  The Infobox gives 1999 populations of 707,400 for the "city" and "urban area".  Neither appears to make any sense whatevever.
The 1999 census shows Mombasa District had a population of 665,018.  Unfortunately, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics website appears to be unavailable, but secondary sources confirming this figure are Statoids : Districts of Kenya and Geohive : Kenya : Administrative Units  At that time, Mombasa was one of 7 districts in Coast Province, though this has subsequently been increased to 21 districts, as detailed at Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security : Coast Province.
Skinsmoke (talk) 08:43, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1999 Census 

message: I was looking the population given for the city, and it got me to thinking about how exactly the "city" is administered at the local government level?  I went to the Mombasa District wiki page, and it seems there are four divisons, and that there isn't a "city" of Mombasa, per say, rather an urban area covered by four different local governments.  Anyone want to explain this?  If the population is given for the urbanized area, that needs to be made clear in the infobox by listing it as "urban" instead of "city". --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:26, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I just looked up the population for the entire district of Mombasa for the 2009 Census, and it only gives it as 523,183.  This means that the population listed for the "city" is actually for the urbanized area.  Still, I'm not even sure where that population comes from, but Kenya's statistics bureau doesn't have this information readily available. --Criticalthinker (talk) 03:46, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Administered

message: What is missing from the city timeline? Please add relevant content. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 11:12, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Mombasa]] 

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message: "The oldest stone mosque in Mombasa, Mnara, was built c. 1300. The Mandhry Mosque, built in 1570, has a minaret that contains a regionally specific ogee arch. This suggests that Swahili architecture was an indigenous African product and disproves assertions that non-African Muslims brought stone architecture to the Swahili Coast."
I would say non-African Muslims heavily influenced it and Swahili architecture was a continuation of Arab/South Asian architecture which had no equivalent inland. Lest you have any pre-conceived notions of what Mombasa was like in the 1500s:
"... a town called Mombaça. It is a very fair place, with lofty stone and mortar houses, well aligned in streets [after the fashion of Kilwa]. The wood is well-fitted with excellent joiner's work. It has its own king, himself a Moor. [The men are in colour either tawny, black or white and also] their women go very bravely attired with many fine garments of silk and gold in abundance."  Barbosa, Duarte, The book of Duarte Barbosa; an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants, 1518. 2001:8003:70F5:2400:C54D:96D9:CD47:690F (talk) 00:16, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claims Swahili Architecture is indigenous. 

message: This behavior of placing These Europeans or other people who weren't born in a certain city and perhaps just visited is insulting. The list of known people should only be for those born and reared in Mombasa or any other city for that matter RickyBlair668 (talk) 09:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable People