East Africa

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East Africa

• Kenya

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Kenya

• Bordered by Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and
  Tanzania.
• Next to the Indian Ocean

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Home Sweet Home

• Some Kenyans
• live in modern apartments.
• live in homes built by whatever they had
  laying around like grass and mud.

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Good Food

• If you ask Kenyan kids, What do you eat? Many
  would answer UGALI, which is a cornmeal porridge.
  
• Other popular foods are rice, vegetables, sweet
  potatoes, pineapples, and plantains (a type of
  banana)

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School Time!

• Start elementary school at age 6.
• They wear uniforms and study math, geography,
  science, and agriculture.

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School Time!

• A lot of schools run all year, but students get
  vacations during March, July, and November.

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School Time!

• You have to pay to go to high school in Kenya!!!
  Many parents cant afford to send their children,
  so many teenagers at age 14, set off to work.

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Sports and Games

• Kenyan people love sports!
• Kenyas runners are FAST!!! They won 8 medals
  for Kenya in the 1996 Summer Olympics!

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Team Sports

• The most popular team sport in Kenya is football
  (known as soccer to the Americans)

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Dance and Music

• The Samburu men of Kenya perform a special dance
  where they jump as high as they can!

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Story Time

• Sikilizeni hadithi yangu means listen to my
  story
• Kenyans love to spend the evening gathered
  around a good storyteller.
• Animal tales are very popular. The person
  telling the story creates a voice for each
  creature!