Editing Republic of Kenya

{{Infobox country|name=Republic of Kenya|native_name=Jamhuri ya Kenya|image_flag=Flag of Kenya.svg|image_coat=Coat of arms of Kenya.svg|capital=Nairobi|largest_city=Nairobi|mode_of_production=[[Capitalism]]|government_type=Unitary presidential bourgeois republic|leader_title1=President|leader_name1=[[William Ruto]]|image_map=Kenya map.png|map_width=260|official_languages=English<br>Swahili|area_km2=580,367|population_estimate=54,985,698|population_estimate_year=2021}}

'''Kenya''', officially the '''Republic of Kenya''', is a country in Eastern Africa.

== History ==

=== Colonization ===
The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British Empire]] colonized Kenya and confiscated land from the native African population. In 1948, the British confined 250,000 Kenyans to 5,200 km² of land and gave 31,000 km² to British settlers. In 1952, Kenyans rebelled against the British in the [[Mau Mau uprising]]. British colonial forces killed 90,000 Africans and imprisoned 160,000 in concentration camps.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Courtenay Barnett|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]|title=Reparations: The Case For Settlement|date=2013-07-03|url=https://blackagendareport.com/content/reparations-case-settlement-0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107224304/https://blackagendareport.com/content/reparations-case-settlement-0|archive-date=2022-01-07|retrieved=2022-08-20}}</ref>

=== Independence ===
Kenya became independent from the United Kingdom in 1963. Less than a month after independence, [[Neocolonialism|neocolonial]] leader [[Jomo Kenyatta]] requested support from British troops to put down the Shifta rebellion.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Horace G. Campbell|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]|title=Can Kenya lead the African Union?|date=2016-11-23|url=https://blackagendareport.com/kenya_unfit_to_lead_au|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106053707/https://blackagendareport.com/kenya_unfit_to_lead_au|archive-date=2022-01-06|retrieved=2022-08-20}}</ref> [[Daniel arap Moi]] ruled Kenya as a one-party state from 1978 to 1992 and in a one-party system from 1992 to 2002.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Henry Makori|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]|title=Kenya Needs a People’s Revolution|date=2016-06-01|url=https://blackagendareport.com/kenya_needs_people%27s_revolution|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107135821/https://blackagendareport.com/kenya_needs_people's_revolution|archive-date=2022-01-07|retrieved=2022-08-20}}</ref>

== Politics ==
William Ruto is the current president of Kenya and leads the [[Kenya First]] coalition, which opposes [[nepotism]] and [[Bourgeoisie|capitalists]] who inherited their wealth but has no problem with "self-made" capitalists. [[Social democracy|Social democrat]] [[Raila Odinga]] leads the [[Resolution for Unity]] coalition.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Omwami Otieno|newspaper=Socialist Revolution|title=Ruto and Odinga Rotten to the Core: Revolutionary Alternative Needed in Kenya!|date=2022-09-20|url=https://socialistrevolution.org/revolutionary-alternative-needed-in-kenya/|retrieved=2022-10-02}}</ref>

== Economy ==
[[Peasantry|Peasants]] and the rural [[petty bourgeoisie]] make up 39% of the Kenyan population, the [[proletariat]] makes up 34%, urban petty bourgeoisie makes up 23%, and the bourgeoisie makes up 4%. Most of the bourgeoisie (3.44% of the total population) works for the government.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Itikadi]]|title=The Basic National Conditions of Kenya|date=2023-02|url=https://communistpartyofkenya.org/ITIKADI/Itikadi-Magazine-Final-2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331082143/https://communistpartyofkenya.org/ITIKADI/Itikadi-Magazine-Final-2.pdf|archive-date=2023-03-31}}</ref>

== Demographics ==

=== Ethnicity ===
Kenya has 42 tribes, and the largest three make up 44.7% of its population. 20 tribes have more than 200,000 members, but there are also small tribes with only 10,000 people. 92% of the population is from Bantu and Nilotic ethnolinguistic groups, 7% are Cushitic (mainly Somali), and 1% are foreigners.<ref name=":0" />
{| class="wikitable"
|+Ethnic groups<ref name=":0" />
!Ethnicity
!Linguistic group
!Population (2022)
!Location
|-
|Kikuyu
|Bantu
|8,140,000
|Central Highlands and Mount Kenya
|-
|Luhya
|Bantu
|6,820,000
|Western Kenya
|-
|Kalenjin
|Nilotic
|6,430,000
|Western Highlands and Rift Valley
|-
|Luo
|Nilotic
|5,000,000
|Around Lake Victoria
|-
|Kamba
|Bantu
|4,600,000
|Eastern and southeastern Kenya
|-
|Somali
|Cushitic
|2,700,000
|Northern and northeastern Kenya
|-
|Kisii
|Bantu
|2,700,000
|Western Kenya
|-
|Mijikenda
|Bantu
|2,400,000
|Coastal area
|-
|Meru
|Bantu
|1,900,000
|Northeastern Kenya
|-
|Maasai
|Nilotic
|1,100,000
|South Rift Valley
|-
|Turkana
|Nilotic
|1,100,000
|Northwestern Kenya
|-
|Other (indigenous)
|Bantu, Cushitic, Nilotic
|3,900,000
|
|-
|Other (non-indigenous)
|Indo-European, Semitic
|200,000
|
|}

== References ==
[[Category:Countries]]
[[Category:African countries]]
[[Category:Global south]]