MyWeku

Introduction

Kenya is noted for its Wildlife Safaris, but the country has much more to offer any traveler, student or entrepreneur wishing to
relocate to this the most progressive country in East African.  From the stately Maasai casually following their cattle across the plains to the hard working urban dwellers Kenyan people are as varied as the land in which they live.  They are on the cutting edge of information technology and the country’s export industry provides a ready and eager staffing base for business people wanting to base in Kenya.

 

The majority of Kenya’s population live on the two, fertile plateaus on either side of the Great Rift Valley.  Most of the people are small scale farmers raising corn, vegetables, and cash crops of tea, coffee or pyrethrum (used in pesticides).   In the predominantly dry
Rift Valley large, irrigated flowers farms produce roses, carnations, statice, astromeria, and lilies for export around the world.

 

Tourism is Kenya’s third largest industry.  Kenya recorded the highest number of tourists’ arrivals ever in 2010, just over one million.  This was a 15% growth over the 952,481 experienced in 2009.  Tourism brought in $800 million USA dollars in revenue in 2010.

 

Despite the fact that eighty percent of Kenyan citizens live in the rural areas, she has some large, prosperous cities.  Nairobi with a population just short of three million is the political and industrial capital and staging site for most of the country’s tourism.
Mombasa (pop. 700,000) is a more laid back Indian Ocean, coastal city that is the major port for not only Kenya but also the land locked countries of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Southern Sudan.

 

English and Swahili are the national languages.  English is widely spoken in all of the Kenya’s cities and one can always finds someone who is fluent in English in the rural areas. Kenya declared independence from Britain in 1964 and had been know as a peaceful country for decades, however post election violence in 2007 marred her reputation.  Most observers are of the opinion that Kenya is well on the mend and a peaceful, constitutional referendum in August 2010 and the flourishing tourism industry seem to back up such optimistic
conclusions.