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Nairobi, Kenya: Africa’s Most Insanely Elegant City Nairobi is changing — and the transformation is happening at an incredible pace. Across Kenya’s capital, mas…
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Nairobi we still have a lot to do especially on horizontal development, it's just worse! it's like pairing a good suit with worn out old shoes....
At times I wonder why we created counties.A whole decade down the line and silly people are still praising mairobi.
Tem muitos edifícios mais as ruas são estreita e sem calçadao ,<br>Se se organizarem melhor ,<br>Ali será com as capitais de itiobia ,<br>Angola ,e Ruanda e algumas sul africanas
Faltou calçadoes e muito mais verde ,<br>Angola Luanda abraço aos meus irmãos kenianos
the problem, ruto opened borders between kenya and somalia🇸🇴. somalians took advantage of that opportunity. they flooded kenya in their numbers and immediately sought to acquire kenyan 'citizenship' IDs. they are the ones congesting nairobi rightnow. they are taking over estates like; eastleigh, parklands, westlands, kilimani, kileleshwa, south-C, south-B, nairobi-west etc.<br>imagine just a few years ago, nairobi population was about 4.1m. today in 2026, nairobi population has skyrocketed and now standing at well, over 7m!<br>aside from somalians🇸🇴, nairobi also has a huge number of ethiopians🇪🇹, eritreans🇪🇷, ugandans🇺🇬, burundians🇧🇮, tanzanians🇹🇿, rwandese🇷🇼, DRcongolese🇨🇩, southsudanese🇸🇸, nigerians🇳🇬, cameroonians🇨🇲, ghanaians🇬🇭. its sad to say, upto 90% of them are not documented
What can I say. Serious vertical development. I grew up in Nairobi and can't recognize 70% of the places you shot. I also lived in Eastleigh 1995 to 1997 and can't recognize a thing today. To put everything in perspective data revels Nairobi metropolitan population to be 15 million plus in 2026. That includes forays into 3 counties i.e Kiambu, Machakos and Kajiado. I read a report that the metro could reach 52 million by 2050 making Nairobi the largest global agglomeration past Cairo and Lagos. My people we might just be witnessing the birth of Africa's premier city. Go to Kenya national bureau of statistics to see the value of approved building plans to illustrate my point. As we speak 300000 affordable houses under construction...massive. Then the rare earth find. 75 billion dollars worth. An investor is meant to pay this in yen years meaning 7.5 billion per year pushing our GDP growth to over ten percent for over a decade. Remember that our GDP is 147 billion dollars. I tell you gentlemen and ladies by the time 2063 reaches and we are 100 years old...this old lady will be first world...I rest my case
Its ok…but not that amazing whatsoever.
Where is Habib State ?
I visited this area recently too, and the reality felt very different from what we usually see online. Talking to the local people gave me a completely different perspective on Nairobi 🇰🇪. If you’re visiting, always respect the local people, their culture and way of life, and be mindful of your belongings while exploring. Travel with respect and enjoy the real experience. 🙏🇰🇪
No, don't broadcast Nairobi too much. We don't want to trend. Let us be. As before. We were quietly happy.
I hope to travel to Nairobi Kenya 🇰🇪 from Canada 🇨🇦
I've been travelling in vietnam and the phillipines. Nairobi shits all over Hanoi and Manilla in terms of nice looking cities. Manilla was putrid!
Wow this country 100x cleaner than india
If you're coming from a clean place you cannot stay there a lot
who's allowing these super narrow roads right in downtown.
Kenya is coming oryt
There's no World in which Nairobi is more elegant than Kigali. Large parts of Nairobi are shocking (yes it has improved in some areas) but the CBD is not what anyone could really call 'insanely elegant'. Now Upper Hill, Parklands, Lavington, Milimani, parts of Karen, they're nice areas but they're also wealthy areas. Wealthy areas look nice in most cities.<br>But Eastlands? South B? Kayole? River Rd etc etc? Elegant? Come off it.
Haha propaganda at its best. Remember that Nairobi could just as well be called Nine-Robberies…. Because that’s how many times the average tourist is robbed while visiting.
We Don't mind you relocating to our beautiful country all we need is please adopt our life style of PEACE LOVE AND UNITY
MOGADISHU ALSO IS BOOMING
This definitely put South Africa to shame
Nice but why so many cables all over and where are traffic lights 🚦
Tall buildings alone don’t make a city look elegant….., narrow streets with no sidewalks….modern apartment buildings with overhead power lines dangling everywhere….the basic deficient infrastructure doesn’t look ready for modern infrastructure that’s thrown up around it….not a very well planned city to cope with all the high rise buildings.
Nairobi is not Africa’s most elegant capital city.
Que linda cidade! Incrível como a África está se desenvolvendo!
One of the best Nairobi videos. Keep serving us such amazing content about African cities.
Kenya is not only Nairobi You need to visit more cities in this country❤❤❤❤
Nairobi will be a super city one day
What's so scenic about Westlands we used to pickup whores them days near GTC it's just a concrete jungle without any greenery 😢
Kenya and Nairobi are beautiful names፡ … I am an Ethiopian. We are lucky to have a beautifil and peace loving neighbor. Long live Africa.
Lovely from INDIA 🇮🇳❤️
Spiderman cables KE ya, power letting us down.
We need to improve i road in the feeder roads infrastructures
ce sont les mêmes problèmes presque pareil dans nos centres villes et quartiers d’affaires des capitales africaines : caniveaux à ciel ouvert, poteaux électriques regroupés avec plusieurs câbles aériens regroupés à chaque endroit ,rues très étroites, problème de trottoirs, peu d’espaces verts,en un mot, les rues ne sont pas à l’image des jolis immeubles.
I want to live in Kenya I am from Ethiopia
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Remove fences/walls from those buildings and towers, then the beauty and aesthetic of Nairobi will be revealed much more than this. <br>Power poles and their wire webs on the streets, lack of car parks, lack of walkways, unsightly hedges are also the other spoilers of the city's aestheticity.
if only there is a policy that the developer improves the roads and greenery around their project. GTC and Altura did it soo well and it should be coppied.
beautiful
Its beautiful but the electric wires make it ugly
As a Kenyan if we had better planning like Luanda Kigali or Addis Ababa Nairobi would be a beautiful city but now it's just disgusting
Nairobi is a capital city without roads. The roads are very narrow.
Finally you visited my home country. Thank you for the information
Where is the elegance?
Só many cables on the strets, they must see the road's way, to progect the cities, you have plane Very well what you want to do, yes we see a beatifull edificies, but the strets are só fews...
I love the improvement but can't we have underground electric cables?
Ethiopian here, Nairobi is the best city in East Africa.
On the plus side, the buildings are impressive, and the locals are civilized and do not seem aggressive. On the downside, however, there are twisted wooden utility poles with sagging power lines, a lack of sidewalks in some areas, and issues with cleanliness. Furthermore, the behavior of moto-taxi drivers is problematic: many riders and their passengers do not wear helmets, and they speed through the city center. To remedy this, the authorities should either ban motorcycles altogether, as is the case in Addis Ababa, or ensure compliance through strict law enforcement. If the Kenyan authorities were to rectify these shortcomings, Nairobi could achieve the same level of development as Durban and Joburg.
Some streets are completely out of step with Nairobi's impressive vertical development. I would even go so far as to say it is undignified. When it comes to urban planning specifically the beautification of sidewalks and streets, Ethiopia, with its capital Addis Ababa, seems to have achieved better results.
You need to visit tatu city and konza city as well
Like a Chinese suburb, África needs to build more and more, more vertical, taller and modern buildings and avenues.
They need to get rid of all of those powerlines and dangling poles and wires, it ruins the city landscape.
roads are too tiny
Kenya is third world as per Kenyans in comment section 😅😅 they are not happy....at all!
There is no doubt... Luanda is more beautiful and developed than Nairobi.
I have personally counted upcoming buildings of 20+ floors under construction in Kilimani alone and the figure exceeds 30.<br><br>In Westlands, they number about 40.<br>Upperhill around 10.<br>Riverside, around 5<br><br>Nothing much seems to be going on in Eastlands except for the affordable housing project in Bahati and Mbotela.<br><br>The middle class will surpass the lower class in numbers few years to come.
The cables makes it look ghetto
It is a beautiful city. However, it needs to improve in cleanliness and sidewalks. It is also not friendly to the disabled.
Addis Ababa , Ethiopia more better Nairobi
What camera do you use? Your picture quality is very nice.
How is the museum scene in the city? And what about green spaces like public parks? Fun video - thank you. …watching from California.
Do they have any 2 lane road in this city?
Those spider like cables are the only let down
Building too many apartment blocks in a congested space.... without upgrading the supporting infrastructure like sewage, roads,drainage, water etc...will eventually create multiple chaotic high rise apartments slums. Who else agrees ?
Your touring in sooo different I love ur content so unique and educating
I'm Kenyan and I'll say it, Nairobi's skyline is beautiful, but street level is ugly!! Until we put those power and internet lines subterranean or redo them overhead with professionalism in mind, until we redesign all these streets with non-motorized transport in mind, until we become intentional about street-level beauty, Landscaping, something will always feel off about our city.
The first district you highlighted is In the west of the CBD. It wasn't designed to absorb the population and infrastructure that followed it's boom. That strained the roads and the social infrastructure in general. The government must do something about it. Like urgently
Os irmão Quenianos devem aprender que para uma cidade ficar bonita não se resume em construir edifícios muito altos. precisa de um bom planejamento urbano e um bom paisagismo.
The sidewalks, almost non existent. I doubt they can work on the roads outside CBD. All their focus is on apartments and Malls to make quick bucks.
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As a patriotic Kenyan, I believe we can do better in terms of urban planning. There's nothing wrong with vertical growth, but we must also prioritize horizontal expansion and more greenery. Our roads are in bad shape, and while Nairobi is a hive of construction right now, it's overly congested. Perhaps it's time we seriously considered relocating the capital to a more central, spacious area. We urgently need a massive metro light rail and BRT system to get rid of the millions of cars clogging the CBD.
after Kenya am assuming u will come to Ethiopia bro. If u want to come to Addis Ababa u should take a bus it is very cheap.
The most OVERRATED city i’ve ever seen 😏 Just imagine if the whole Kenya revolves around Nairobi and yet the city is this disorganized, how much worse are the other parts of kenya really?
buit by china to take their resources
Man how can I hook up with you,i need a tour guide,I want to visit Kenya
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