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8 Sunscrapers: The towering buildings of Nairobi’s Central Business District, viewed from the panoramic heights of Upper Hill. The lowdown: A sea of makuti tin roofs give shelter to some 700,000 residents in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, now said to be the largest informal settlement in Africa.
CHAPTER 2: NAIROBI The ‘Green City in the Sun’ In just 100 years, Nairobi has grown from a murky swamp and unlikely railhead for the Mombasa-Kampala railway to a booming city of 4 million people and the economic capital of much of eastern and central Africa.As well as Kenya’s commercial heart and a transit point for thousands of African tourists, Nairobi serves as the regional headquarters of dozens of multinational companies and major aid organisations, and the global headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). Nairobi is blessed with one of the most pleasant climates in the world, and – in its residential suburbs at least – retains a remarkably green, pollution-free environment.The city’s status as regional capital has also helped to create one of Africa’s most cosmopolitan leisure spots, with some of the continent’s finest hotels, restaurants, and modern and cultural entertainments (see Chapter 9). And, of course, Nairobi remains the centre of Africa’s very first ‘safari business’, with a range of wildlife, cultural and sporting adventures that is second to none. Nairobi came into being in 1899, when Mile 327 of the East African Railway was established on a patch of papyrus bog known as Uaso Nyrobi (Maasai for ‘place of cold waters’) – the last area of flat land where the engineers camped to figure out their ascent up the eastern shoulder of the Great Rift Valley. In a few short years, this small supply depot was transformed, first into a campsite for thousands of Indian labourers, and then into the thriving capital of British East Africa. Encouraged by financial incentives and cheap land, Europeans soon began to move into the fertile highlands north and south of Nairobi, leading to friction with the local Maasai and Kikuyu. Mixed agricultural farms were set up, with coffee plantations established by new arrivals including the Danish author Karen Blixen. The number of white settlers rose to 9,000 by 1920, and by the 1950s stood at 80,000. Alienated from their land, many Kikuyu people also migrated to Nairobi, became part 9
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