🇰🇪 Kenya
Nairobi
Nairobi ("place of cool water" in Maasai — Enkare Nyirobi) is the most dynamic city in sub-Saharan Africa: a 4-million-person capital that went from a railway camp (founded 1899 as the base camp for the Uganda Railway) to the financial and technology capital of East Africa in 125 years. It is the rare African city that offers world-class wildlife safari (Nairobi National Park, the only national park in the world within a capital city — lions with a city skyline behind them), a thriving arts and tech scene (the "Silicon Savannah" is Africa's most active startup ecosystem), and the gateway to the Masai Mara (4 hours south, the greatest wildlife reserve on earth). Nairobi has also produced the finest long-distance runners in history and some of the most interesting food in Africa — nyama choma (roasted goat), ugali (maize porridge) and the extraordinary Indian-Kenyan fusion of the city's large South Asian community.