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  • Kenya’s literacy rate is one of the leading in Africa. Historical records from the travels of Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann reveal that Kenyans had access to education as far back as 1728 with a Swahili manuscript Utendi wa Tambuka, (the book of Heraclius) attesting to the fact. The CMS missionaries interacted with locals in the coastal town of Mombasa and set up one of the earliest mission schools in the country at Rabai in 1846. With the expansion of the railway from Mombasa to Uganda, the Missionaries expanded their work into Kenya's interior. An attempt to set up a school and mission at Yatta in 1894 was resisted by the Kamba tribe.

The establishment of the Kenyan Community Association in Calgary in May 2009 has given Kenyans in Calgary an opportunity to stamp their presence in this City. Kenyans have been in Calgary for several decades now but mainly as students at the University of Calgary. In the early 90’s Kenyan families begun settling in Calgary from the east as a result of the robust economy as the oil boom begun to take Alberta by storm.

The 2000 saw an influx of even bigger numbers of Young Kenyans from Ontario Quebec and the maritime. Calgary had by now become the preferred City to work and live in Canada. Many of the young people established small businesses and begun to register their presence in the Calgary economy. Many others joined the labour market as professionals in various international organisations and government institution operating in Calgary. With time, many have bought properties and established homes in Calgary. It is no wonder that even the recession of the last year or so has found many Kenyans so rooted in this city that they could not be moved.

Kenyans in Calgary have kept an ad-hoc quasi type association meeting mainly when there is a kind of celebration like Jamhuri day or to console a community member who is bereaved or in some kind of need. Kenyans have also been very keen in joining community members when they have special functions like weddings, bridal and baby showers, graduations, fellowships etc. The desire to have an officially registered community organisation for Kenyans has always been there.

It is against this background that Kenyans in Calgary saw the need of forming a community organisation for Kenyans and friends of Kenya to champion their course in Calgary, Alberta and the whole of Canada. Mr. Robert Mugo took the challenge and together with a few other Kenyans volunteered to organize Kenyans into starting a community organisation that we can now call “Kenyan Community Association-Calgary (KCA-Calgary). The rest is history.

 

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