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I just have one question. If this is from Kenya, why is it written in English? I will admit that I have no knowledge about Kenya, but don’t believe that their official language is English.

3,860 posted on 08/02/2009 5:49:48 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)

To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

It was a British colony.

3,886 posted on 08/02/2009 5:56:56 PM PDT by Houghton M.

To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

Kenya was a British colony until 1963.

3,911 posted on 08/02/2009 6:05:45 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)

To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

"I just have one question. If this is from Kenya, why is it written in English? I will admit that I have no knowledge about Kenya, but don’t believe that their official language is English.

Man, you need an African education. English is the official language of virtually every former British colony, including (in Africa) Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Guinea, and, yes, Kenya. English is the "default" language because each of these countries has many, many tribal languages and they needed to pick a "neutral" language. For bonus points, what country has more English speakers and readers than any other country? --the answer is India, which has twice as many English speakers as the United States, and 11 times as many as England..

3,953 posted on 08/02/2009 6:24:03 PM PDT by cookcounty

To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

I have no knowledge about Kenya

You just made that obvious.

4,226 posted on 08/02/2009 8:10:18 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)

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