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Title: East Africa


1
East Africa
  • Kenya

2
Kenya
  • Bordered by Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and
    Tanzania.
  • Next to the Indian Ocean

3
Home Sweet Home
  • Some Kenyans
  • live in modern apartments.
  • live in homes built by whatever they had
    laying around like grass and mud.

4
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)

5
School Time!
  • Start elementary school at age 6.
  • They wear uniforms and study math, geography,
    science, and agriculture.

6
School Time!
  • A lot of schools run all year, but students get
    vacations during March, July, and November.

7
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.

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

9
Team Sports
  • The most popular team sport in Kenya is football
    (known as soccer to the Americans)

10
Dance and Music
  • The Samburu men of Kenya perform a special dance
    where they jump as high as they can!

11
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!
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