What's It like to Be a Teen in Kenya?

Vast game parks teeming with all kinds of exotic animals. East African beaches with palm trees waving gently in the breeze. Bustling, colorful Nairobi, Kenya's capital, with its modern skyscrapers. A tourist may come away from Kenya with impressions like these, but what is it like for those young people who actually live there? Chances are that if you lived in Kenya, your home would be in a rural area. Probably you'd have grown up near a small village, actually just a clearing in the bush where maybe 200 people could gather for market. You would never even visit the nearest town, let a lone a city like Nairobi.

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