Nairobi will only get richer at expense of other counties

As long as Nairobi is open, attracts the talented, welcomes them and allows them to test their ideas, the city will remain wealthy, with a dark side, inequality. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Nairobi generated 27.5 per cent of Kenya's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022, according to the latest economic report by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

That was not surprising. But why is Nairobi so wealthy and rich? A better question is, where and how does Nairobi get its wealth, outdoing 29 counties combined?