The cultural diversity of Kenya as a nation reflects it’s long history.
Various religions, tribes and languages will be inspected below.

Religions, tribes, cultures and customs are what make up Kenya’s population.
The Cushite and the Northern Nilotic people, basing on what we know today, invaded the native inhabitants of the Kenyan land first, years ago, a time when the nation’s human map was started.
Arabs, Europeans and Asians then came forth after the Bantu’s, which explains the skin colours of Kenyans covering the range of clears and darks.

There is an uneven distribution of nearly 30 million Kenyans throughout the country since human settling in the Northern and NorthEastern regions, which are rather arid and hostile, is not favoured.

It’s quite rare to find 2 inhabitants per square Km as the population density in these regions, while the opposite occurs in the Western Region where the density goes up to 120 people living per square Km due to the presence of rich and fertile soils.
Population density is different in different areas within the Rift Valley, having a mean of 13 persons living per square Km.

The climate in the Kenyan highlands is mild and so that compels most of the Kenyans to live in them.
Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa and Nakuru are some of Kenya’s large cities and contain 25% of the total population, which is the urban population, while the fertile areas are where the rural population is confined and their major activity for survival is agriculture.

In Kenya, the employed population including nomadic shepherds and small farmers is only 4 million people.
Of the total active population, 30% are women.

The linguistic origin of the tribes is a factor by which they are classified in Kenya, since it’s population is mainly black.
In the South East, central highlands and the coastal regions is where the Bantu tribes, which take up 65% of the total population stay. 30% of the total population, which are the Nilotics, stay in the South West and the Central Rift Valley region, yet those in the Northern areas are the Cushite peoples and take up 3% of the total population.
Minorities like the Europeans, Hindus and Arabs also make up the population spectrum.
A lot of Kenyans are made to speak more than one language due to this diversity.
Kenyans learn English, the official language from school, though Swahili is common language fro the Entire East Africa.
Inspite of this, native language still persists.
Both wealth and conflict originate from the same source, Diversity.

As it is in other African nations, the feeling of nation in Kenya is applicable mainly to own tribe regardless of efforts by the government to make the Kenyans love the idea of one united nation with a common destiny.
The illiterate Kenyans have failed to assume the concept of the state.
The imaginary border between Kenya and Tanzania more than 100 years ago split the Masaai land.

The collective memory of the Masaai being one people despite the tearing apart of the Masaai destines by time at either side of the boarder.
It is therefore difficult for the Masaai to figure out why the arbitrary line is quite hard to cross, cuts the path to their cousin’s villages.

This continues even in these recent times, where entrance to another tribe’s territory is treated with hostility and without trust.

Kenya’s Population in 1999 is summarized as follows:

There are 28,808,658 people in total in Kenya, with a population growth rate of 1.59% and a mortality rate of 59.07 / 1000 living births.
The life expectancy of the total population is 47.02 years and yet that of males and females is 46.46 and 47.49 years respectively.

Concerning religious denominations in Kenya, 28% is taken up by Catholics, yet the majority, which is 38% is taken up by Protestants. Muslims take up 7% and others are only 1% of the total population.

The age structure of the population in Kenya is as below:

0-14 YEARS    15-64 YEARS    65+ YEARS
Males     6244321    7845083    343449
Females     6104181    7826442    445182
Percentage     43    54    3

Kenya ethnicity is made of the following ethnic groups;
Luo taking 13% of the total population,
Kamba 1ith 11%, Meru and Kisii with 6%, Kalenjin with 12%, Kikuyu taking up 22%  and so it’s the largest, followed by Luhya with 14%. Other Africans take up 15%, yet non-Africans like Europeans, Asians and Arabs only occupy 1% of the total population.

Kenya has a migration rate of – 0.34 emigrants per 1000 inhabitants and a death rate of 14.58 / 1000 people, together with a birth rate of 30.8 / 1000 people.

The natality rate is 3.88 births per woman.

Apart from numerous local languages used, the official spoken language is English with Swahili as the national one.

The literacy level of Kenyan’s above 14 years of age according to 1995 data is 70% in females, 86.3% in males and 78.1% in the total population.