A country in East Africa, part of the United States of Africa in Star Trek's future, and the homeland of communications officer Nyota Uhura.
Kenya is a country in East Africa. In the future of Star Trek it belongs to the United States of Africa, and it is best known as the home of Nyota Uhura.
The original series hints at her origins through her use of Swahili, which she speaks in The Man Trap and relearns in The Changeling after Nomad wipes her memory. Strange New Worlds states the connection outright. In Children of the Comet, Cadet Uhura tells Pike's dinner guests that she comes from Kenya, grew up speaking dozens of languages and had intended to study at the University of Nairobi, where her parents taught, until they died in a shuttle accident.
The alternate-reality Uhura of the 2009 film Star Trek shares the same background and the same gift for languages.