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A SIMPLE

COUNTRY ANALYSIS

HISTORY

0 BC - Earliest Human Settlements Were there

600 AD- Arabs begin settling coastal areas, over the centuries developing trading stations which facilitated contact with the Arab world, Persia and India.

1944 AD - Kenyan African Union (KAU) formed to campaign for African independence. First African appointment to legislative council.

1963 AD - Gained independence from the British on December 12th.

1944 AD - Kenyan African Union (KAU) formed to campaign for African independence. First African appointment to legislative council.

2006 AD - October - UN says some 35,000 Somalis escaping drought, Islamist rule and looming conflict have arrived in Kenyan camps since early 2006.

2010 AD – Kenyan gets a new constitution.

HISTORY

CULTURAL/SOCIAL

ENVIRONMENT

Population: 41,609,728

English, Kiswahili &

Indigenous Languages

87.4% of Kenya is Literate (2010 est.)

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

Kikuyu 22%, Other African 15%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, Non-African 1%

ETHNIC GROUPS

Christian 82.5%,

Muslim 11.1%,

Traditionalists

1.6%, Other 1.7%,

None 2.4%,

Unspecified 0.7%

(2009 census) RELIGIOUS GROUPS

Power Distance 70Individualism 25 Masculinity 60Uncertainty Avoidance 50

HOFSTED

GOVERNMENT

UHURU KENYATTASince 9, April 2013

@UKenyatta

1. Kenya is a Republic.

2. Kenya’s legal system is a

mixed legal system of English Common Law, Islamic Law,

and Customary Law.

ECONOMY

$76.07 Billion

GDPReal Growth Rate of 5.1% (2012 est.)

Low In

come Developing

Kenyan Shillings (KES) per US Dollar -$85.82

IMPORTChina 15.3%, India 13.8%, UAE 10.5%, Saudi Arabia 7.3%, South Africa 5.5%, Japan 4%

machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics

EXPORTUganda 9.9%, Tanzania 9.6%, Netherlands 8.4%, UK 8.1%, US 6.2%, Egypt 4.9%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 4.2% (2011)

tea, horticultural products, coffee, petroleum products, fish, cement

TRASNATION PROBLEMS

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INFRASTRUCTURE

1. ICT

2. POWER

SOCIAL

MEDIA

2,018,560

53% of Kenyan’s Access Social Media on there Phone

$200 Million was spend in 2011 on ads

372% Increase in Kenya Facebook users over the last year

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Facebook Users

Questions?@imondonawa

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CIA World Factbook (n.d.). Kenya . Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html

Social Bakers. (n.d.). Kenya . Retrieved from http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/kenya

Ken's Blog (n.d.). Kenya social media stats. . Retrieved from http://www.mark.co.ke/2011/03/firefly-kenya-social-media-statistics-scangroup-digital-approach-kenya/