Jambo!
Kenya has two national languages, English and Swahili.
English was inherited from Kenya’s British colonial past and is primarily used in commerce, schooling and government. Most people in urban areas speak English, but not everyone does outside the bigger cities.
Swahili (also called Kiswahili) is a unifying African language spoken by nearly 100 percent of the Kenyan population. Even illiterate Kenyans know some basic Swahili. The purest form of Kiswahili is spoken along the coast where native Swahili people live. Swahili is one of the most common African languages and it is spoken in many countries other than Kenya, such as Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda and Zaire.
There are 66 other languages spoken in Kenya by about 42 different ethnic groups.
Obviously, we will be speaking primarily English at Rift Valley Academy, but it is our desire to learn to communicate in Kiswahili at least on some level in the next few years so that we can interact and develop relationships with more Kenyans living in rural areas. Pray for the discipline to keep learning.