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Kenyans in Britain active in economy

Kenyans are among the most economically active and successful of all the immigrant communities in the UK, says a new report.

The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) says that it estimates 123,600 people who were born in Kenya currently live and work in the UK.

The Kenyan expatriate community is the 13th largest in Britain, ahead of Australians, Italians, Canadians and even, surprisingly, the French.

But the community, said to be a mixture of African business people, white Kenyans, Kenyan Asians and asylum seekers, is one of the most productive of all immigrant communities to the UK.

Kenyans in the UK earn on average £24,500 (Sh3.3 million) a year, behind seven other countries including Americans, Canadians, Australians, South Africans, the French and Ugandans who have an average per capita income of £27,400 (Sh3.7 million).

But Kenyans are also the second biggest home owning immigrants in the UK, behind India, with 82 per cent of the community owning a house.

They are also among the least likely of all the communities to be claiming benefit from Britain’s social welfare system with only one per cent doing so.

Nearly 80 per cent of all Kenyans living in the UK are employed, with 19 per cent of them self employed. Average hourly pay for Kenyan immigrants is £12.50 (Sh1,704) per hour, among the top 10 earners of all immigrant communities to the UK and just behind Ugandans who earn £13.40 (Sh1,840) an hour.

The detailed study into Britain’s biggest immigrant communities was conducted by the institute to try and dispel some of the myths that have made life difficult for some immigrants in the UK.

Evidence base

The aim of the report was to tackle the fact that there is “very little information on the economic characteristics and contribution of Britain’s immigrants,” said the IPPR.

“This is unfortunate because it means that policy-makers do not have the evidence base they need on which to base good policies and because it leads to claims being made about immigrants and immigration that are based on intuition and assumption rather than hard data.”

Kenyans make up the third largest African immigrant group to the UK, behind South Africa with 189,900 and Nigeria with 146,300.

Because they are Kenyan.

and theya are gudhu jarreer

Somalis come to the UK, Ask benefits don't want to work are lazy and criminal.


Compare that to your successful African neighbor

look at this baboon

get the hell out of here motha fuka

Do you feel better by calling me a baboon? Is this supposed to be insulting because I'm Kenyan? Somalis are black too, skinny moron

motha fuka im black
but i aint got no kinky hair or huge flat nose.. u are the son of slave im the son of a king plz behave

[quote="muktaar"]motha fuka im black
but i aint got no kinky hair or huge flat nose.. u are the son of slave im the son of a king plz behave[/quote]

My nose is perfectly normal, and I have curly hair and no slavery ever in my blood line.


stop assuming things you black skin son of a illiterate nomad high on Khat.

so u have normal nose and curly hair

well proof it then by puttin ur pic on ur avator

<-----------as u can see i have soft silky hair and prefect normal nose

we kenyans have an advantage over somalis in the UK because we received a higher quality education in our youth. there is no other explanation to it.

another reason could be islam, the british feel more comfortable around christians so thats a disadvatage to somalis. sorry but somalis just arent built for the UK, i was suprised to learn there are very many somalis living there.

on the flip side, somalis are the best business men in kenya right now, they are literally milking the economy. they are putting up properties everywhere.

[quote="kenyan4life"]we kenyans have an advantage over somalis in the UK because we received a higher quality education in our youth. there is no other explanation to it.

another reason could be islam, the british feel more comfortable around christians so thats a disadvatage to somalis. sorry but somalis just arent built for the UK, i was suprised to learn there are very many somalis living there.

on the flip side, somalis are the best business men in kenya right now, they are literally milking the economy. they are putting up properties everywhere.[/quote]

Bro

We need to make a stop to these Somalis getting a grip on our Economy, This might look innocent right now but in time they will start having influence on the regular Kenyans like the American Jews have on all the Americans.

We should deport all the Waria's back to NFD or Somalia and forbid them from coming to Nairobi

All Kenyans are united, but the Waria's seem to crave for Somalia and are not patriotic Kenyans

Sijui's think they're Kikuyu now?

Kenyans are doing well in the UK because they are naturally servile people not because the Brits gave them a better quality education system thats nonsence. They may do better in UK because they are in awe of English people and are more willing than somalis to work their butts off. Why can't Kenyans be more like Somalis . Drop the 19th Century English names like Alfred, Elizabeth and Josephine Learn to have confidence in your own ethnic names and stop being so servile to the English. It makes them uncomfortable, and you look silly.

because they have aids and life expectancy is like 10 year span.

so they do in 10 year what we do in 40 years.

^^^

yo, comparing somalis to kenyans is like comparing mexicans and americans. look there r 100'000's of starving somali refugees in kenya, and no needy kenyan in somalia. while the kenyans have peace, prosperity and a functioning healthy democracy & society, somalis decided to self-destruct. somalia will never and can't be like kenya. don't compare them. there is not a society in africa you can compare to somalis. somalis are god's gift to self destruction. worse than animals.