| Nairobi
is the capital city of Kenya, boasting over 3 million inhabitants. It was
founded as a colonial city at the turn of the twentieth century with the
ongoing construction of the Uganda Railway—taking its name from a
variant of the Maa (Maasai) place-name for it which means cold watering
place. As a colonial city, its spatial composition reflected the racial
prejudices of the British colonial project from its inception, and that
segregation, together with some of colonial Nairobi’s earliest neighborhoods
(called “estates”), can still be seen today. |
Kenya
Country Infomation |
