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I got the uber pedant.. "While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this."
To be entirely fair to it, that is a transliteration problem. It does make sense if it could use Swahili to write the final "K" but it can't, so it transliterates to "K".
Then again, Kenya has both Swahili and English as its official languages, so it's the kind of pedantry which is also (*sort of) incorrect.
As far as I know, Swahili is almost always written with the latin script.
That's a not universally popular colonial imposition. Hence my final comment.