How to pronounce “nair” in English

America and they start doing paperwork and they're taking some of the Lost Boy to uh and the Lost Girl to NairobiNairobi is the capital city of Kenya well it became this is real I thinkthey're going to take us to America uh some of us now start thinking

perhaps explain to you why and how I got interested in Theodore Roosevelt I was born and brought up inNairobi Kenya we pronounced it Kenya in those days it's now Kenya um I was born and brought up inthis house which um was a 2 acre property on the edge of of this of this city there was a river at the bottom of

So we got VC backed, set up offices across-- I think at this stage, we're in about 10 African markets across East and West Africa, headquartersin Nairobi and London.And we have teams that partner us with key data repositories in each of these markets.

there too often people presume there's nothing of value and yet in African cities there are creative people I ivisited Nairobi and Google's team in Nairobi very impressed with what they're trying to do and how they're trying toleverage the talent that's there in some so in some sense there's a there's a a parallel to what's happened for me so

Lions. Who doesn't love lions?This is Nairobi in Kenya.

He's also written for "Foreign Policy," "The New York Review of Books," "The New York Times," "Sunday Magazine," "The New Republic," and "GQ."He currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya with his wife and two boys.And we're thrilled to have him here today.

So thank you, Chris.And in Nairobi, we were introduced to this terribly shy Kenyan boy who was cowering in the corner.

OK, so secret number one, the first thing we must do before we can be happy.My mom is from Nairobi, Kenya.My dad is from Amritsar, India.

And this is Jolie.And this was in Nairobi, Kenya.And this was a program called Heshima Kenya, and it was sponsored by American Jewish World Service.

especially affluent people within the city.Like in Nairobi, the groundwater levels for this have dropped tremendously because everybody was drilling a wild borehole.And people were drilling boreholes for irrigation purposes, but went into what's called the ice in the salt layers.

And I was-- I remember one day it just-- the documentary stumbled across our screen.This was when I was in Nairobi.And I was glued to the screen.

And then he came to my house after that, and we vacationed, and I came to Uganda multiple times.And we've been to Nairobi together and to everywhere, lots of places.We've traveled a lot together.

Poachers will take any tusk and leave the little guys as orphans.There is a great orphanage in Nairobi, the William, or the Daphne Sheldrick orphanage.Has anybody been there?

And if it does, what will happen to these animals?Will they start migrating through Nairobi?That would be quite a scene.

Lions. Who doesn't love lions?This area in the foreground is Nairobi National Park.

I recall in those early days, when I was saying these things, and I was hammered by the media all around, a professor from Oxford, ,it cost me literally 100 million naira to keep "Patito's Gang" on the air.

We can talk about my life as a failed boxer.I lost a boxing match in Nairobi to the mayor, and they had t-shirts made up saying, Fletcher goes home on a stretcher,which I pretty much did.

On the other hand, it can be live and fresh, and some people really can do that very well.He lived in a little settlement outside Nairobi, trying to protect cattle from lions.

Is the answer the same in Nairobi?

And all the important work was in Nairobi.

someone from a neighborhood in Nairobi and take them to Wilson Airport and then shackle them, hood them, and fly them to Somalia where they're then put in this

You have to spend 300 Naira.

into the tech center in Nairobi, so going from no job possibility to right in, so there's programs like that that we can connect the talent in Liberia to.

I work with Google in the Nairobi office and I'm very passionate about the role of language

which was a popular section of Nairobi.

Accra, Nairobi, Dakar-- in all of these cities, I witnessed the beauty of the people and the range and depths of our culture.

And where I'd come from in the semi-slum in Nairobi, there were no street lights.

Because the idea is to economically empower African women.And if you go into a tech hub in Lagos or Nairobi, you will find women there, but they're likely digital marketing, or web design.They're doing the non-tech tech things.

Lions. Who doesn't love lions?It's a small national park just outside of Nairobi, where you can go just for the day and see some animals.

And they've done this mapping of slums in Nairobi.

That's Ruth and her daughter, Jane.And this is in one of the slums in Nairobi, and they both have AIDS, but fortunately they're being treated with anti-virals.And they have no symptoms.

If you are buying a lot of tatsi Naira.

talented youth leaders out of the slums in Kibera in Nairobi, training them on internet how to you know HTML and, and really making web pages, blogging, etc. and then come right

This is from a-a paper in-in Nairobi saying, "What are, these, yes we understand there are multipliers and diminishers, but how do you become a multiplier? Are there some simple

in London and then we're going to fly to Nairobi and I you know and I'm I'm expecting The Greatest Adventure of my

had an ear for young women like ler Laura nairo and others who wrote and

I got a chance to go to Timor with Allan Nairn, and it was November 12th, 1991. The Indonesian military occupied the whole island. The people were holding a procession for a young man

computer companies in Johannesburg and IBM is there and Microsoft for many years so let's set them aside for amoment you know Google chose initially to go into Nairobi they also looked atRwanda Rwanda is an interesting interesting place it has you know

there's a group of countries with a lot of stability high education and acertain amount of IT professionals so the city's Nairobi Kampala and Uganda acry and Ghana there's a number of cities in Nigeria that have booming IT

And during this time, I was interviewing Mira Nair, who I'm sure many of you know.

Barbara Plet Usher, a correspondent in Nairobi, says it's not yet clear if the incident is linked to the Middle East conflict.

"angel." Again, I grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and I remember Miriam Makeba's "Malaika, Nakupenda Malaika." So that really resonates as I think about the name.

And we were growing up in a semi-slum called Eastleigh in Nairobi.

Lions. Who doesn't love lions?Unfortunately, if you go to Nairobi National Park and drive around for the day, you'll see that the animals aren't in really great condition.

And so this is like the ups and downs of journalism.And all around us, even in Nairobi, people were killing each other based on ethnic lines.

Remember, we've invested millions of naira in this brand, in building this brand.

30-40 million. And the city of Nairobi has about four million.

I mean, just walking down the street in Nairobi. "Oh, Keanu." You know what I mean?

and finance efforts to shoot up people at malls like the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, or go to a school, as they did in Kenya, and slaughter 70 or 80 students.