Republic of Kenya
Kenya is an East African country of nearly 48 million people, and became independent from Britain in 1963 after its colonial period as British East Africa. Both Swahili and English are widely spoken languages. Kenya’s economy relies heavily on agriculture, with tea and coffee being its primary cash crops. The country is 86% Christian, 11% Muslim, with 3% traditional and other. Kenya is a democratic republic with a government structure similar to that of the United States. The current president is Uhuru Kenyatta, educated in Kenya and in the US at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Kenya is a beautiful country located in East Africa on the equator, with lovely people, extraordinary geography, bountiful wildlife, and is a photographer’s dream.
Photos from top left clockwise: (1) Mt. Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa at 17,057 feet in elevation, (2) one of our sponsored scholars, Mercy, and her lovely grandmother, Salome, (3) map of Kenya with Nairobi as its capital of nearly 4.5 million people; and Meru near the center of the country close to Mt. Kenya, and (4) the beautiful and plentiful flowering plant called Trumpet Vine.