Kenyan Culture

The Kenyan culture has no other culture that can identify with it. Kenya has such a diverse number of people from various different regions that there is no one true Kenyan culture. Among the communities that comprise the entire cultural community of Kenya there are the Swahili and many other pastoralist communities, the latter commonly found in the northern parts of Kenya. There are also many different communities that are quite unique to the central and western parts of Kenya. This is why it has become quite difficult to have a mutually embraced cultural identification in Kenya.

The totality of Kenyan culture is made up of 42 different tribes within its area. Each of those 42 tribes have their own unique cultures. A lot of them do however have intertwining cultural practices, due mainly to the fact that tribes who reside close to one another have close resemblances in their languages. There are three major categories for language in Kenya that unifies certain tribes. There is the Bantu, spoken by those who hail from coastal areas, central highlands, and the western regions of Kenya. The Nilotes are another category, found in the Lake Victoria area as well as the Rift Valley. The third are the Cushites, who are mostly comprised of pastoralists and nomads found in the north eastern part of Kenya.