Kenya Research Paper

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“Kenya” Kenya is a shining gem in Africa because of its many exports and interesting clothing style. Due to its very fair government and a past with no civil wars it stands apart from many of the other African countries. Kenya, though a pretty new country, has huge natural landforms and bodies of water, exports flowers to most of the world, and a rich traditional dress and dance culture. . Its unique past and hopeful future show hope to other struggling countries in Africa and the whole world.
Kenya is full of famous landforms, including the Great Rift Valley, Lake Victoria, the Chalbi Desert, and Lake Turkana and useful water sources, making it a popular tourist attraction. Kenya is in Eastern Africa which means that it borders the Indian …show more content…

The Berlin conference was from 1884 to 1885, in it, countries of their world chose what parts of Africa that they would “help by colonizing”. Kenya became a British colony during the conferences and remained one for many years after. It was a colony with settler rule and soon settlers came from Europe to take control. The people were forced to pay taxes and do free slave labor for the settlers. The people started to fight this system, but it wasn’t easy with limited supplies and freedom. Great Britain colonized one of the biggest chunks of Africa, under their control Kenya lost many years of freedom and developments. The colonization of Kenya, though detrimental at the time, has made Kenya a strong and stable country …show more content…

Their exports consist of cut flowers, tea, coffee, plastic lids, and brochures. The imports are cars, tea, furniture, telephones, palm oil, and telephones. Flowers are one of Kenya's biggest exports. Kenya is one of the top flowers sellers in the world and one in three of flower bouquets sold in Europe are from Kenya. While the beautiful floral landscape of Kenya may seem nice on the outside the people have to work hard to keep up with such a high demand. Like the varying imports and exports of Kenya there are also varying races and

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