this is kenya a country known for its beautiful landscapes safaris and perhaps some of the best tea in the world though its economy is so much more than just tourism and giraffes acting as a hub for transport and finance across east africa as the fourth largest economy in sub-saharan africa kenya has the sort of market presence you'd associate with a regional power particularly when it comes to logistics and trade which we'll be delving into later in a region not well known for its economic stability the nation has managed to achieve sustained economic growth averaging a more than NUMBER_TOKEN percent rate during the NUMBER_TOKENs to put that in context this was the highest rate since the NUMBER_TOKENs when its economy was much much smaller for a country where manufacturing accounts for less than NUMBER_TOKEN percent of gdp a share which has actually been on the decline in recent years this is a remarkable achievement which makes the nation's success all the more intriguing one that the government is keen to link to vision NUMBER_TOKEN an ambitious development blueprint that aims to create a globally competitive country by you guessed it NUMBER_TOKEN. on paper its growth helped it achieve the world bank's lower middle income status in NUMBER_TOKEN though kenya doesn't plan on stopping there its aim is to become an upper-middle-income country by NUMBER_TOKEN but let's not get ahead of ourselves extreme inequality and corruption are huge issues staggering levels we'll be highlighting later on in the video for now though kenya's economy raises some important questions how did kenya become east africa's economic powerhouse what makes kenya an effective partner for its landlocked neighbours how successful could vision NUMBER_TOKEN be and what are its challenges and solutions but first we have some exciting news we've recently launched a new website URL_TOKEN to provide you with even more content this includes content on our most popular videos exclusive blog articles detailed references including the ones for this video and new infographic maps the link to alt URL_TOKEN is in the description below so how did kenya become east africa's economic powerhouse this begins not just with kenya but the wider east african region for centuries the area's coastline has been a focus of global trade one prized for the trade winds which would transport vessels from ports like mombasa and zanzibar all the way to india attracting arab portuguese and then british traders though it would arguably be the latter who had the greatest impact on the kenya we know today in the late NUMBER_TOKENth century european powers were in a hurry to grab basically anything in africa they deemed as unclaimed territories despite the fact that these territories were very much being claimed by the people who already lived there hmm britain and germany in particular took a keen interest in the region eyeing up both the sultanate of zanzibar which followed the coastline and the east african interior to save their fighting for the NUMBER_TOKENth century britain and germany decided to split the region germany taking the lands roughly equivalent to tanzania and britain modern day kenya and uganda however britain didn't really want full responsibility for the region so decided to allow a company to administer and develop the territory one creatively called the imperial british east africa company in NUMBER_TOKEN one of the company's main aims was to build a railway from the coast all the way to the
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