Kenya feels so many, perhaps too many.
On the one hand it can only please those who hold this country, resident Italians who feel less "alone" and those who live in tourism and camp thanks to the entry of foreigners. On the other hand, it is always hoped that the information, even at the time of "globalized truths", of fear at all costs and of the imperious superficiality, will always be the most accurate and precise possible.
Here is an example of common places to explain, to deepen and deny by whom Kenya knows it, to whoever speaks it to say.

1. IN KENYA THERE IS THE WAR
Despite the Italian media trying to guess it, not even too many lines, Kenya has never lived a civil war or an internal conflict with neighboring countries.
Kenya is an independent country for 54 years when it was liberated by the colonizers of the former British Empire. That is the first and last battle, exhausting and bloody, fought by the Kenyan people. Kenya is a Democratic nation and multiparty for twenty years. The aftermath of the 2008 elections resulted in 1200 deaths in the country, almost all in the north for ethnic rivalries.
The anniversary of Somalia's crisis has led the Kenyan army, in solitary missions, or by joining Amisom (African Union countries), within the tormented country of the Horn of Africa.
2. KENYA IS CARRIED
You can not make such a statement unless you first say what kind of stay you meant. If the destination is safaris, according to reserves and parks, spending can be high, but those who know Africa know that Kenya still offers the best value for money.
If you are talking about long holidays in Malindi and the surrounding area, you should avoid buying Italian products and already spending down.
Why have breakfast with White Mill biscuits and Nutella costs ten times that of the "Nice" and the Zesta jam.
But above all, have you ever eaten a 20-pound papaya and a 25-inch mango? Where we Italians suffer, it is certainly on extra virgin olive oil and wine, which we seem to be unable to do even on vacation. And coffee.
Speech can also be applied to certain restaurants where, for example, shellfish and fresh local fish cost much less than in Italy, and it is sacrosanct that raw ham or mozzarella on pizza costs the restaurateur, and hence prices, much taller. Each country then has its achilles heels, and whoever has frequented it for years will surely find it more expensive than before, but that belongs at that time, not just in Kenya.
3. MALARIA CAN BE MISSED
This is a truth that almost exclusively concerns the local population of the lower bands. For some years no cases of tourists died in Kenya as a result of malaria. It has to be said that you may die of malaria if you do not care well, or you get fatigued.
In any case, what hardly the Italian doctors and travel agencies say is that instead of making the damaging and unsafe prophylaxis today, malaria can safely be cured as an influx through a combination of "the next day" ", Based on artemisin.
Drugs that are on sale in Kenya at affordable rates compared to preventative medicines for sale in Italy.
4. RAPIDS AND MUNICIPALS
The data concerning robberies and murders in civilized Kenya, that is, those attended by Western citizens or foreigners, are not worse than those of Italy.
Suffice it to think that by taking an average and considering the different numbers, in Italy, tourists victims of violence are three times Kenya's (Eures-Ansa source).
In addition to considering that in Kenya are very rare (hopefully do not even learn this from us) rapes and kidnappings.
5. AL SHABAAB
Kenya is not an Islamic country, but it is not at all against the Muslim religion, so that, especially on the coast, coexistence between Christians and Muslims has always been peaceful. Never Kenya has had revolts generated by religious feuds. Rather, the problems and related attacks (only one on the coast, at Kikambala in 2002) are almost exclusively concentrated on the border with Somalia, now uncontrollable in the hands of lords and integralists, in conflict with their governments which instead support the Kenya's policy in the Horn of Africa.
6. CORRUPTION
Kenya has for years been in the disgusting ranking of the top ten most corrupt countries in the world. Even Italy is not bad at this ranking, let us mean it, but the African nation is certainly a big and rooted problem.
This is a problem that, however, is particularly concerned with politics, business and justice. In everyday life, and especially with regard to a vacation, it is important to know that this habit usually translates into requests for small tips that can safely be dismissed or money in exchange for "close an eye." If there are no eyes to close because it's okay, it's okay.
Sunday's moralists forget that (unfortunately) corruption, for us Italians, also has its own salvific insights: if you climb up three in helmet without helmet, do not wear your car seat belts or do some other small offense , At that point those little mancups can save from appearing before the judge, as the law transmitted by the British would impose. And it does not matter if the law is applied above all to foreigners. We learn to respect it, and we will never have to worry about anything in this country, answering with a smile of a clerk or an official.
7. CAN NOT DELIVER THE EVENING
For some, it seems that there is a curfew in Kenya. Meanwhile, there is always the usual distinction between tourist sites and neighborhoods or areas inhabited and attended only by local citizens.
For example, anyone would recommend a foreign tourist to go out in the evening to go to a restaurant or nightclub on the Amalfi Coast, but no one would dream of advising Scampia or the outskirts of Castellamare di Stabia, which are also within walking distance .
Much more if the tourist is dressed and dressed as a "tourist" and brings with him money or material goods.
However, on the Kenyan coast, walking by means and not walking, the night around life and quiet, and the locals are all now in mixed attendance, and the possible problems (quarrels or raises due to the alcoholic degree) are lower than those of the European nightclubs , Some of these times.
8. SEXUAL TOURISM
Deciding not to go to Kenya because there is "sex tourism" would be like deciding not to go any further from the avenues and the ringroads of every Italian city, and in several provincial roads of the Peninsula. Beyond the disquiet for those who are not used to seeing certain things that have always belonged to humanity, such as an eighty-handed hand in a 20-year-old hand, it is to be said that at least in Kenya there is no exploitation of prostitution, They are the "papponi" and paying a firefly does not feed the drug racket or some other illegal activity, but to the maximum the school education of a little ignorant son of zocc ... pardon, of a student or some dress signed. Sadness, to the limit, but also a rooted habit in Africa, where the first "users" of the oldest craft in the world are the same Kenyans.
9. SPORTS
Kenyans are not "dirty" and generally Kenya is certainly not India, where there is a historic and consolidated tradition of hygienic practices that are completely different from ours. Rather, something more similar could be our Campania (but without Camorra)
The real problem is the country's growth, which has to deal with the problem of waste disposal. It is the thing that jumps to the eye, in addition to galloping urbanism, especially in the suburbs. Just enter the peasant reality just outside the inhabited centers, and you will see how everything is cleaner and tidy.
The Kenyan Government has also recognized this problem, and the turnaround of 1 September 2017 to abolish the production and distribution of plastic bags will surely improve things, pending a serious policy on waste disposal.
10. KENYA IS NOT A COUNTRY "VEGAN FRIENDLY".
Unfortunately we have heard this too ... We would like to calm down all the ingredients of celery stalk and soy milk. Given the good presence of Indians and other vegetarian minorities for religious beliefs, and the goodness of fruit and vegetables, as well as the presence of protein elements such as cashew nuts and beans, surely in Kenya you will not starve.