Kenya Culture Is Diverse, With Over 40 Tribes and Languages- Many Geographic Features and Influences

Kenya culture is built from many Cultural Influences.

They came to explore: The Arabs, The British, the French, the Germans, The Portuguese. Add the native people and you've got a complex mix.

They came to trade in ivory, and cotton, to see hippos, elephants, lions and leopards.

Some came to build , some to farm, and some as missionaries.

They found an immense and gorgeous land.

Lake Victoria, main source of the Nile River

They also found the native people.
The native ethnic groups , based on language and customs are
the Bantus, the Nilotics, and the Cushites. Below are Photos/Posters of different tribes...Samburu, Massai, Turkana...

Here's a map showing the major ethnic groups.

The Bantu include the Kikuyu, Luhya, Kamba, Kisii and Meru.

The Nilotic people: people from the area of the Nile River include the Maasai, Turkana, Samburu, Kalemjin, and Luo.

The Cushite people are thought to have migrated from Ethiopia and other countries north of Kenya. Cushite people include the Somali, Boran, Rendille, and Oromo.

The early explorers found a different land, new landscapes, different languages, different ways of life.

You can see it today: the Kenya culture,the land and the various cultural influences.

Karen Blixen went , married , worked for 17 years at building a coffee plantation.
She wrote her story as a memoir, "Out of Africa".

Today you can visit a coffee plantation near Mt. Kenya.
You might see a child helping the family with the harvest.

You can visit the Blixen Museum in Nairobi.

You can see the tea farms and the sugar cane fields.

Go the the
coast, the beaches
and you'll find the Arabic and Portuguese influences.

Go on a safari in one of the many National Parks and see the Wildlife

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