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Kenya Why after thousands of years does Kenya still face problems of economic despair? death and disease? Kenya, a county that has known the presence of humankind since the very earliest development of our species is considered a third world country. Although Kenya has a history that dates back many centuries it still ranks high in the area of human suffering. Europeans were encouraged to settle in Kenya by Great Britain. This brought more Europeans to work as administrators in a country that wasn‘t theirs. As the economy grew, more professionals came in as doctors, lawyers, accountants, missionaries, teachers, hunters, mechanics and electricians. However, these new settlers with their education and skills did not share much of it with the Kenyan people. Kenyans worked as laborers on large European farms and plantations in their own country on land that really belonged to them. During the time that the Europeans settled in Kenya, Kenyan’s faced issues such as, racism, discrimination, economic deprivation, corruption, disease and death. The Kenyan people were getting tired of the Europeans controlling their land, their country. By the 1940’s Kenyan leaders started to make demands for ending European control of the government. Despite the demands of the Kenyan’s, until the 1960’s the European Colonial governments primary goal was to control and set up a European-style country in Kenya. Basically, they came to an unknown land and country, took over and treated the African people as secondary citizens. Today Kenya, is the center location for trade and finance in East Africa. Trading in Kenya has been difficult because of corruption and Kenyan’s dependence on several primary goods whose prices continue to decline. Also, a severe drought from 1999 to 2000 added to Kenya's problems, causing water and energy rationing. The drought also reduced the amount of farming production. Despite the return of strong rains in 2001, Kenya's trade, industry and financial growth was slow. “Political leaders also believed that some of the causes for Kenya’s economic despair included but were not limited to the following; adaptation of the socialist model, excessive controls of the economy, devoting to much energy on politics, poverty disease, ignorance poor leadership, greed and corruption, dependence on primary commodities and high population growth rates.” Kenya is a transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America. There is also widespread production of small plots of marijuana in Kenya. Given the fact that Kenya is considered a regional financial center, there fact there are high levels of narcotic-associated activities and massive corruption, there is a lot of potential for money laundering activity. However, poverty continues to be the number one problem for the Kenyan people. With the formation of various language groups the political and social environment began to change in Kenya.