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'Islands of wealth in a sea of slums'? Kenya divided over satellite cities

Tatu City
Tatu City. [Standard: File]

NAIROBI, KENYA: On the outskirts of Nairobi, vast tracts of agricultural land are seeing a new type of growth, as steel rods and concrete pillars set into the red earth reach into the Kenyan sky.

More than 17,000 acres (6,900 hectares) of farmland that was home to coffee bushes and cattle is being turned into satellite cities as developers eye the nation’s growing middle-class.

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