PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Kenya comes from Hebrew origin meaning "animal horn." Also, from Russian origin meaning "harmless innocent."
Kenya is 224,962 square miles. It is about the same size of Texas.
Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest.
December 12, 1963 is when Kenya gained independence from Britain.
In the 700s, Arab seafarers established settlements along the coast, and the Portuguese took control of the area in the early 1500s. The land became a British protectorate in 1890 and a Crown colony in 1920, called British East Africa.
Kenya has had only 4 presidents.
The president right now is Uhuru Kenyatta; he has been in office since April 9,2013.
The first President was Jomo Kenyatta who was a Prime Minister before he became president.
Population: 41,800,000 people.
There are 76 people per square km.
There are 42 different tribes.
Ethnic groups: Kikuyu(22%), Luhya(14%), Luo(13%), Kalenjin(12%), Kamba(11%), Kisii(6%), Meru(6%), other African(15%), non-African(Asian, European&Arab)(1%).
The official languages are Swahili and English.
Religions:
Christian-82.5%
-Protestant-47.4%
-Catholic-23.3%
-Other-11.8%
Muslim-11.1%
Traditionalists-1.6%,
Other-1.7%
None-2.4%
Unspecified-0.7%
The capital is Nairobi.
There about 3 million people in the capital. Nairobi has a very high crime rate; if you live there(or anywhere in Kenya), no one ever goes out after dark because up the crime is so bad.
Nairobi has the 2nd largest slum in Africa called the Kibera slum. It has about 150,000 people living there who live on less than a dollar a day. The Kibera slum has one of the highest HIV/AIDS density in Kenya. Literacy level is very low because only a few can afford to go to school;assault and rape cases are quite high in the area.
Thousands of tourists come to Kenya to see animals like zebras, lions, rhinos, hippos, leopards, cheetahs, gazelles, hyenas, elephants and giraffes. But most people come to the wildebeest migration.
