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Nairobi, Kenya
Successes and Challenges
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Challenge: Urban sprawl
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Challenge: Urban sprawl
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It threatens wildlife habitat.It takes farmland.
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1976 2005
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Challenge: Urban sprawl
It threatens wildlife habitat.It takes farmland.
Another tough challenge:Totally unstable neighbor - Somalia
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22-year constant civil war (since 1991), no
central government
Totally unstable neighbor - Somalia highest infant death rate in the world (23% dead before
5 years old)
unsafe drinking water for 70% of people
only 10% of kids in school
Statistics source: UNICEF, http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/somalia_865.html
piracy is a major source of income
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To help limit Somalia’s violence, the African Union has troops in Somalia. Kenya’s military
helps with this AU effort.Some Somalia “warlords” REALLY don’t like
this!
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One result: Somalia radicals attacked Nairobi’s Westgate Mall (Sept. 21, 2013),
demanding Kenya withdraw from African Union efforts in Somalia.
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Three days later: at least 68 killed, 175 wounded
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“…all that separates Kenya from Somalia, the promising and the broken, is a thin line in the desert that usually goes unpatrolled.” - Jeffrey Gettleman, 27 September 2013, Nairobi
Challenge: lack of education1960: only 20% of adults in Kenya could read.
2011: 87% of Kenyan adults can read.
Solution: free public schools
Challenge: poverty1960: $98 per capita Gross Domestic Product
Solutions: set up national parks to attract
tourists develop secondary level of
economy
http://nairobinationalpark.blogspot.com/2013/05/park-1-day-tripnairobi-wildlife-park-1.html
Challenge: poverty1960: $98 per capita Gross Domestic Product
2011: $820 per capita Gross Domestic Product.
Solutions: set up national parks to attract
tourists develop secondary level of
economy
Challenge: unable to join high-tech economy
Solutions: fast & cheap internet (2008)
pushing high-tech education at Kenyan universities
Encouraging overseas study (& for them to come back to work in Kenya)
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Challenge: unable to join high-tech economy
Solutions: fast & cheap internet (2008)
pushing high-tech education at Kenyan universities
Encouraging overseas study (& for them to come back to work in Kenya)
http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2013/08/the-3-secrets-to-kenyas-technology-success/
Challenge: unable to join high-tech economy
Solutions: fast & cheap internet (2008)
pushing high-tech education at Kenyan universities
Encouraging overseas study (& for them to come back to work in Kenya)
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Challenge: unable to join high-tech economy
2013: Nairobi “techies” strong in developing on-line services for small businesses.
Solutions: fast & cheap internet (2008)
pushing high-tech education at Kenyan universities
encouraging overseas study (& for them to come back to work in Kenya)
Info source: http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2013/08/the-3-secrets-to-kenyas-technology-success/
watch this than in Nairobi. New office blocks are rising above the tin-shack slums, new bistros are popping up all over the place and taxi drivers are getting on Facebook. It’s essentially Africa joining the world.” - Jeffrey Gettleman, 27 September 2013, Nairobi
“…the dramatic expansion of Africa’s middle class, now more than 300 million people, and perhaps there’s no better place on the continent to
3. Draw Conclusions Based on the information you have, could you say that improved literacy rates caused the increased GDP, or that the increased GDP per capita caused the improved literacy rates? Why or why not?
Don’t forget the last question!