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GERALD710:
Really As a Kenyan, I found that article not only ridiculous but very narrow minded.
Last I checked, there is only one place in the entire country where Nigerians are present; Nairobi. I come from Mombasa, Kenya's second largest city, where the majority of the population is Arab and Swahili and where Nigerian culture is nil.Zero. Zilch. I currently actually live in Nairobi, where Nollywood movies are watched by...our maids. I do not know any middle class Kenyan who actually watches Nollywood movies.
and Demiladegold.What Nigerian products are sold in Kenya beyond books and ocassionally clothes??There are direct trade barriers (that our president has tried and failed to bring down)deliberately put between the EAC/COMESA and ECOWAS, there is hell in no way any Nigerian products find their way here. Legally that is . No supermarket stocks any product from Nigeria.Ever.Maybe a bookstore and a few boutiques.
Kenyans, especially those from my region where I was born (the Coast) look to the West, and for the Muslims, to KSA and Lebanon. Not to Nigeria. Central Kenyans dislike Nigerians with a passion and the Western part are too obessed with Obama(since his father is from there) to notice Nigeria.I doubt the cushite North even knows Nigeria exists!!
The fact that some working class and low income Kenyans from Eastern Nairobi like Nigerian music does not signify 'the colonisation of Kenya' by Nigerians since nigerian influence is zero amongst Kenya's middle ad Upper class in Nairobi(For example I live in Westlands, Nairobi, where Asian culture reigns supreme and the rest of this part of the city would not look out of place in the UK. Especially Karen which still has a white majority to date or Kilimani and Kileleshwa where upper class black Kenyans are busy creating sex scandals, fun parties and virtually everything Americans do) and is also nil in all other Kenyan cities. Show me any 'Nigerian influence' in Kisumu,Nakuru,Eldoret, Garissa(a somali town),Nyeri,Machakos or Kisii.
As for Nigerians buying land in Kenya.I know liars when I read them. Do mention where they have bought real estate in Nairobi since Nairobi, the only place where Nigeirans are found, all the land in the city is leasehold and owned by either the National Government,Local Government or the Millitary.
And as of 2010 Non citizens cannot own land on freehold in Kenya. Even Citizens cannot own freehold land in Nairobi where everyone is on a 99 year lease. What crap have you been fed on Our own Italian population at the Coast had to learn fluent Swahili(They had only satisfied the 7 year requirement as most had been around for 30+ years without taking up citizenship) and engange with the locals to get a good rating in order to retain their lands there. I doubt any Nigerian owns any real estate beyond an apartment lease in Nairobi since our last census did not show any Nigerians as citizens here.

Only low class house maids from Western Kenya like Nigerian movies.
The only reason Kenyan TV stations began airing naija movies is because they are cheapest in the market. Kenyans only watch local TV during evening news otherwise Kenyans avoid local TV stations like the plague. Lazy housemaids wait for their masters to leave the house then they watch whatever crap they can find on TV. The remote control for DSTV/GOtv is too difficult for them so they just watch low quality crap. These maids are super bored and will watch absolutely anything to pass time. Plus alot of these nollywood movies are mostly about poor women they can relate with. People from Western Kenya also believe in witchcraft which is a common theme in Nollywood. People from Central and Northern Kenya will never waste their time watching voodoo witchcraft nonsense.

This link shows the general feeling of Kenyans.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/nollywood-celebrates-witchcraft-voodoo-say-kenyan-film-makers/
Nollywood celebrates witchcraft, voodoo, say Kenyan film makers

While Nollywood is making waves, as second largest film industry in the world, the movies are relatively unpopular in Kenya. Kenyans know more of Hollywood, Bollywood than they do know about the existence of Nollywood, they stressed, adding that, Nigerian films really do apply to Nigerians.
In Kenya, Nollywood movies are relatively scarce, only house-maids and Nigerians residing in that country may show interest in such movies. This is the group of people that watches Nigerian films in Kenya.

Muafrika2:
Nice,

The Kalenjin are beautiful too,

Mercy Cherono;

I agree.

AyoniAye:
I am Nigerian. Its quite uneducated to state that Kiswahili is the language of Kenya or Tanzania. Basic research will show that Kiswahili is a Bantu language which is a branch of the Niger-Congo language family. There is no ethnic group that lays claim to Kiswahili; it is simply the language of the African people. This is in sharp contrast to, for example, Yoruba or Igbo which--despite being members of the Niger-Congo language family--is strictly the language of the Yoruba/Igbo people. PKJAG, as a teacher (and might I add a superb one) you need to educate more Africans who are interested in [/i]our[i] language on the African origins and that it is not restricted to a specific ethnic group like nearly all indigenous African languages are. When better educated, I have no doubt that all Africans will seek to learn Kiswahili for purposes of greater unity, rather than European colonial languages. Asante sana!!

The Waswahili are an actual tribe.

pkjag:
Really, haven't heard of them, maybe it's the Arab slave traders who were left there after colonization and intermarried with the local tribes.

People in Eastern Congo adopted Swahili because they are culturally & geographically closer to Tanzanians than lingala speaking Kinshasa. Many of them have lived in Tanzania as refugees for many years & returned to Congo speaking swahili.

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