Bomas Of Kenya
Open-air village of reconstructed traditional homesteads from over twenty Kenyan ethnic communities.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi starts with two neighboring homesteads built for opposite climates: a Maasai manyatta of mud and dung meant to be dismantled and carried off, and a Kikuyu house squared off against highland fog. It traces how they both ended up standing together on the same patch of forest-edge soil after 1971, when the new republic wanted visitors to see the whole country without traveling it. You'll hear about the economist who chose this ground, Barack Obama Sr, and how he never lived to see it filled with more than twenty replica homesteads. Look at each roofline as you walk between them; it reads like a map of Kenya's weather.
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