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A founding member of the East African Community, the Republic of Kenya is an African country known for its warm and humid tropical climate due to its Indian Ocean coastline.
Kenya lies on the equator and overlies the East African Rift. It covers a diverse and expansive terrain that extends from Lake Victoria to Lake Turkana.
Its regions comprise savannah, lake lands, valleys, and mountain highlands. The climate varies from tropical along the coast to temperate in lands, and arid in the north and north-eastern parts of the country.
Nairobi is the country’s capital and largest city. It is famous for the Nairobi National Park, the world’s only game reserve located within a major city. Known as the Green City in the Sun, its name came from the Maasai phrase, Enkare Nairobi, which translates to “cool water”.
The country is an economic and transport hub in East Africa that possesses a growing entrepreneurial middle-income class with tremendous development potential. Currently, Kenyans consist of 40 ethnic groups including Kikuyu farmers and Maasai cattle herders.
Within the global athletic arena, the country is famous for producing Olympic champions in long-distance and middle-distance running.
According to the CIA World Factbook, Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) emphasises on services (49.3%), agriculture (32.7%), and industry (18%). Kenya’s economy mainly relies on overlapping sectors; agriculture and industries.
Agriculture remains the backbone of the Kenyan economy with more than 80% of the population employed in the agricultural sector and related services and industries.
The country’s agriculture relies on tea, coffee, corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruit vegetables, dairy products, beef, fish, pork, and eggs.
At the same time, the country’s industries sector emphasises on small-scale consumer goods such as plastics, furniture, batteries, textiles, clothing, soap, cigarettes, and flour. These include agriculture products, horticulture, oil refining, aluminium, steel, lead, cement, commercial ship repair, and tourism.
Tourism services are Kenya’s principal source of foreign exchange with Germany and United Kingdom comprising the largest number of visitors.
Kenya’s wildlife displays an impressive number and variety of species. Eco-tourists flock to the country to witness wildebeest migration as well as other animals such as lions, leopards, buffaloes, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, and various kinds of birds.
Eco-tourism features wildlife safaris with only 8% of the land designated as game reserves. Kenya is home to 40 game reserves with Tsavo-East, Amboseli, and Maasai Mara being the three main reserves. These game reserves also conduct controlled hunting tours whereby animals can be hunted by licenced visitors.
The largest of the reserves, Tsavo-East, is one of the oldest and largest park in Africa with numerous animals living in their natural habitat. The low animal density and natural environment provides experienced hunters with various challenges to stalk and test their skills.
