Living in Kenya

Kenya carries a reputation as one of the region's technology centers, and English runs through working life, so language is rarely the obstacle. Pay still sits at the lower end of the global scale, and while the cost of living runs a little above the regional floor, tax leaves most of your earnings with you, with the amount left to save staying thin. For an outsider, the clearest way in tends to run through the technology sector, though hiring without local roots takes time.

Kenya runs against the regional trend: its foreign-born population is shrinking, down 11% over the past decade to 927.1K. The arrivals remain dominated by neighbors fleeing instability, led by Somalia (402K), Uganda, and South Sudan.