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Wednesday,Feb 17,2010
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Monday,Feb 01,2010
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Thursday,Dec 03,2009
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Monday,Nov 09,2009
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Sunday,Aug 16,2009
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Friday,Jan 30,2009
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Monday,Dec 15,2008
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Overrepresentation of Kenyan Students in Colleges and Universities in the United States: An Unscientific Examination
By:
Amadu Jacky Kaba, Ph.D
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Amadu Jacky Kaba is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Department of Public and Healthcare Administration, Seton Hall University, USA.
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Introduction
Compared to the other 52 independent African nations, Kenya appears to have a special relationship with the United States. One clear example of this special relationship between Kenya and the United States is the unusually high proportion of Kenyan students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States. For example, of the 37,724 African students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States in 2001/2002, Kenyan students comprised 7,097 (18.8%). Of the 15,331 East African students from 19 countries enrolled during that same period, Kenya’s 7,097 students accounted for almost half (47%) of that total.[1] What makes this unusual is that Kenya does not have the largest population in the continent. It in fact accounts for only 32 million out of 874 million Africans in July 2004 on the Continent. Nigeria as of July 2004 had the largest population of 137 million, followed by Egypt with 76 million, Ethiopia 68 million and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 56 million.
Nor do Kenyans contribute the highest proportion of African immigrants in the United States. According to Okoth (2003), as of 2001, there were 47,000 Kenyans in the United States.[2] According to the United States Census Bureau, as of the year 2000, there were an estimated 881,300 African immigrants in the United States. The 134,940 Nigerian immigrants in the United States in 2000 equaled 15.3% of all African immigrants, the highest number of all African countries. During that same year, the total population of Egyptian immigrants in the United States was 113,396; Ethiopians were 69,531, and Ghanaians 65,572.[3]
African scholars and students in the U.S. have been debating this topic. Why are Kenyan students overrepresented in colleges and universities in the United States? To answer that question, I have come up with the following speculations: (1) Religion, mainly Christianity (2) Language, English (3) Demography (4) Major international Hub for Western Media (5) Shift from British to American education system (6) Relative political stability compared to Congo, D.R. or Liberia (7) Early adoption of Capitalism or American and British brands of it (8) Human’s Evolutionary history (9) Kenya, like the U.S. as a victim of international terrorism. (10) Kenya’s great collection of beautiful and powerful exotic animals. Let us briefly examine each of these factors
(1) Religion (mainly Christianity)
The United States and Kenya are very religious countries and that might have contributed to what appears to be a special relationship between them. Not only are the two countries religious, but the majority of people in each country are Christians. As of 2005, in both the United States and Kenya, 4 out of every 5 people (78% in Kenya) are Christians. One example of America’s Christian influence in Kenya is the establishment of U.S. affiliated private Christian colleges and universities. For example, on January 12, 2001, the East African Standard published a list of 14 private colleges and universities in Kenya that were under different categories of accreditation. Of those 14 private colleges and universities, 13 (93%) were Christian based, with most of them affiliated with Christian institutions in the United States. The one university that was not Christian based, was still an American institution, the United States International University (USIU). This might contribute to the high number of Kenyan students in the U.S., when compared to other African countries, because those institutions in Kenya may have less difficulty finding visas for their former or current students who want to further their studies in the United States.
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