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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


Amadu Jacky Kaba is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate Department of Public and Healthcare Administration, Seton Hall University, USA.



Immediately after independence in most African countries, a number of African countries, including Kenyan’s neighbor Tanzania, experimented with socialist type economic systems. Kenya on the other hand, took a different route and established a capitalist (American and British style) economic system. This might have caused Kenyan students and members of the public in that country to know how the American system works. As a result, the two countries might have had a mutual admiration for each other. This admiration might have resulted in higher number of Kenyan youth seeking enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities. 

 
 
(8) Human’s Evolutionary History
               
Scientists have attempted to present evidence that shows that humans originated from sub-Saharan Africa. Some have even been more specific by claiming that our ancestors, who left Africa, did so from Eastern Africa, and Kenya has been one of those countries mentioned as to where the first humans who left the continent originated from. In the United States, most people have the privilege to watch documentaries on public television, including those about human evolution which cites Kenya as where some of our oldest ancestors originated from. This might cause curiosity among the American public and the country’s colleges and universities to allow more Kenyan students to enroll in their institutions.
 
(9) Kenya, Like the U.S. has been a Victim of International Terrorism
               
The United States’ special relationship with Kenya might have grown stronger or closer after the 1998 terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and in Tanzania, with most of the over 200 casualties being Kenyan citizens. As a result, the U.S. might have used this unfortunate incident as a way to reward Kenya by granting an increased number of visas to young Kenyans seeking to further their education in U.S. colleges and universities.
 
(10) Kenya’s Great Collection of Beautiful and Powerful Exotic Animals. 
 


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Westerners have been known to be fond of traveling to Kenya for its powerful, beautiful and exotic animals such as the Lion, Elephant, Cheetah and Giraffe.  A substantial number of people in Western nations, including Americans, make traveling to Kenya for a Safari as one of their life goals. Indeed, it has been pointed out that when the father of the current Queen of England, Elizabeth II, died, she was in a tree house in Kenya when she heard the news of her father’s death. What does this have to do with the relative high number of Kenyan students in the U.S.? Perhaps, Americans might think that allowing more Kenyans to attend colleges and universities in the U.S. could ensure that they too could have less difficulty getting visas to travel to Kenya for a Safari. Furthermore, the fact that a substantial number of Americans, especially the elites, travel to Kenya for Safaris could lead to them becoming friends with more Kenyans thereby supporting requests for more Kenyans to have the opportunity to travel to the U.S. for  higher education.
 
Conclusion
               
Many of the examples above are just speculations as to why Kenyan students are overrepresented in U.S. colleges and universities. However, if this trend continues, a social science research may be necessary to get a better understanding as to why a country that is not even among the top seven most populous countries in Africa, has almost 1 out of every 5 African students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities in the 2001/2002 academic year. Among African students in U.S. colleges and universities, Kenyans are overrepresented just as they are overrepresented among the winners of professional long distance runners in the U.S. and the world.  
 
 
References


[1] “Foreign Students by Place of Origin 2001/01,” 2003.  Institute of International Education, New York, U.S.A.  Retrieved on December 14, 2004, from

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