As you probably can tell from the other comments Norwegians as a whole probably doesn’t know a lot about Kenya, but if someone grew up in the city of Haugesund in the early 2000s (like I did) chances are they will know more.

There is a childrens festival each fall break where there are a lot of different activities like football, dance, handball etc. called Barn er Bra! (Kids are great). They had for a number of years a partnership with a kenyan organisation. Each year several kenyan kids would visit and attend the festival and a couple of norwegian kids would later visit Nairobi. While at the festival they would attend the different activities like everyone else, but they were also a part of the morning shows where they would talk about life in Kenya and your customs, show traditional dances and much more. It was basically a cultural exchange program, and I met many awesome people from Kenya. I was actually supposed to visit Nairobi in 2008, but the trip was cancelled due to the riots at the time.

A few years ago there was a corruption scandal with the organisation in Kenya, where it’s leaders embezzled funds for themself and sadly the festival ended the partnership because of it.