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Kenya's Pride

Safety:

  • Peaceful despite challenges; Over 40 ethnic groups live together side by side, united by their sense of nationhood; resilient as a people, able to handle a challenge
  • Freedom of movement and tangible police presence on the ground
  • Law and order
  • Democracy, despite challenges: Freedom of information – a world class journalistic community, producing many journalists for international media: One of the best press freedom in Africa
A Special Tribute to our Armed Forces: We are very proud of you as you soldier on and strive to protect our sovereignty from external aggression. God Bless Kenya

    Sports:
    • Unbeatable athletes, best in the world, almost unbeatable in long races. (Special tribute to Kamau Wanjiru, our fallen and beloved Hero)
    • International standard Rugby Team, in the league of teams like England, New Zealand, South Africa, Fiji, Wales and the like.
    • Top Brass Volleyball Team in Africa
    • One of the best Swimming Teams in Africa
    • Best in many a competition in various sports including boxing, netball, 
    • Always way up the medal list in African, Olympics and Continental games


    Tourism:
    • Nairobi National Park, at Nairobi's backyard, just a few kilometers from the city centre
    • Unparalleled natural beauty and scenery including fertile green highlands, magical arid and sandy grasslands, coastline with white sandy beaches, hills and Mountains, rivers and natural lakes, volcanic action with geysers and hot springs, natural rich forests, beautiful plantations
    • Beautiful and varied wildlife, birds, fish, and animals of all kinds, amazing coral at the coast; The big five and everything in between
    • Excavations and evidence of historic life forms
    • World class National Airline plus many other world renown airlines serving travellers to and out of the country
    • Cultural diversity playing out in song, dance, art, design and other form of expression, bringing out the best in us and reminding us who we are (expressed daily at the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi, our cultural village)

    Education:
    • Education accessible to all
    • Free primary education and free tuition at Secondary/Tertiary institutions
    • Many and resourceful public and private universities
    • Educated, intelligent populace with many skilled professionals in all fields
    • ICT availed and embedded in the curriculum 

    ICT:
    • Government drive to avail ICT to the whole country through use of Fibre Optic cable now installed and in use
    • Widespread use of computers and mobile phone technology: Access to cyber cafes for shared computer/internet use
    • Mobile money transfer like M-Pesa through mobile phones, a unique invention of Kenya; hence ease of money flow to the remotest parts of the country

    Productivity:
    • Agriculture, mining, industry, skilled Human resource: Major world producers of Tea and Coffee
    • Our own Nobel Laureate forever and successfully fighting to save the environment (May She Rest in Peace)

    Cosmopolitan:
    • Widely travelled: Kenyan presence and productivity in many countries in the world

    Culture:
    • Varied and exciting, evident in almost everything we do, food, fashion, language, song, dance, art, design and other forms of expression, bringing out the best in us and reminding us who we are 
    • Expressed daily at the Bomas of Kenya, our cultural village and exhibition, for local and international tourism

    Music:
    • Refreshing and vibrant, emerging as an exclusive industry ready to take on the world, be that gospel or secular: Many talented artists and a national shared love for music