Transcript File - Middle School World History and World Geography

Nairobi, Kenya
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Kenya: VERY diverse
Challenge: Urban sprawl
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Challenge: Urban sprawl
It threatens wildlife habitat.
It takes farmland.
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Challenge: Urban sprawl
It threatens wildlife habitat.
It takes farmland.
1976
2005
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Another tough challenge:
Totally unstable neighbor - Somalia
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Totally unstable neighbor - Somalia
 unsafe drinking water  highest infant death rate
in the world (23% dead before
for 70% of people
5 years old)
 piracy is a major source of income
 only 10% of kids in
school
 22-year constant civil
war (since 1991), no
central government
Statistics source: UNICEF, http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/somalia_865.html
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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
“…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
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Challenge: lack of education
1960: only 20% of adults in Kenya could read.
Solution:
 free public schools
2011: 87% of Kenyan adults can read.
Challenge: poverty
1960: $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: poverty
1960: $98 per capita Gross Domestic Product
Solutions:
 set up national parks to attract
tourists
 develop secondary level of
economy
2011: $820 per capita Gross Domestic Product.
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
Solutions:
 fast & cheap internet (2008)
 pushing high-tech education at
Kenyan universities
 encouraging overseas study (& for
them to come back to work in Kenya)
2013: Nairobi “techies” strong in developing
on-line services for small businesses.
Info source: http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2013/08/the-3-secrets-to-kenyas-technology-success/
“…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
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
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?