NairobiWalker
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- Oct 31, 2012
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I presume this response was supposed to be to me.4.3m to be precise,
Ideally You May be right, but Nairobi is different, Nairobi is just overwhelmed with poor infrastructure, poor services, poor drainage system, poor mobility due to lack of organized public transport,massive slums etc . Usichangane mambo mzee ,
nairobi ni low budget Dhaka ya Bangladeshi, au sampuli za Lagos. a Typical third world township.
Nairobi was 4.3M in the 2019 census. It's 2023. Using the population growth rate from the past 10 years from the census (2009 - 2019) the population of Nairobi would be now about 4.7M.
I may not be right, I am right. People are moving from urban sprawls to compact cities.
Nairobi is a third world city but so is Dar. One major feature of most third world cities is being overwhelmed with poor infrastructure and poor services - Nairobi may be overwhelmed but it is still the best in the pack in this region and definitely the best planned so far. You speak of massive slums that only constitute 6% of Nairobi while in Dar 90% of it is a massive slum of disorganization. Even your best neighborhoods such as Mbezi lack basic amenities such as tarmacked roads. Worse still, the city is one big urban sprawl with no green spaces - one wonders if you'll ever get to provide services to the whole of it if you can't even provide them to your posh neighborhoods.
NB - The two cities you mentioned - Dhaka and Lagos - are better than Dar in every way you can classify the positives of a city.

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