Communities

Kenya is a unique place; we have over 43 different communities each with its own dialect, customs, foods and music. These communities all have something unique and what's amazing is our ability to consolidate our unique cultures into a single national identity. The official languages here are English and Kiswahili but also Sheng is widely spoken as well. Sheng is a complex mixture of the two official languages and communal languages. It is a sort of language or languages and is spoken mainly by the youth. What’s interesting about Sheng is its lack of a dictionary and its constant evolution for example the Sheng spoken today is very different from that from five years ago. New words are created and old ones discarded all by “market forces”, kind of like in economics. It mysteriously just happens.

In Kenya, most people have two homes especially those who work in Nairobi. The Nairobi home and the rural home and most people travel back during festive season such as Christmas, Eid, Easter etc. The entire extended family gets together and as in the norm of such celebrations a goat or sheep is slaughtered for the barbeque. This is a tradition for the rich as well as the not so well off.
 
Kenyans have a lot they are proud of, for instance Kenya is one of the only places in the world where you can wake up and eat breakfast in a hotel, lunch at a Nairobi national park with all kinds of wildlife and dinner next to the beach. Kenya is the only country that welcomes tourists home as it is thought our Great Rift Valley is the cradle of all human kind.

In conclusion Kenya is an awesome place, great weather, great people and vibrant.


Samuel
Nairobi
Kenya