Konza, Kenya

Konza is a small town in Machakos County, Kenya. It is located 70 kilometres (43 mi) south-east of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Machakos town, the county capital, is located 35 kilometres northeast of Konza.

Konza is located in Kimutwa location of Central division of Machakos County.[1][2] Konza is part of Machakos municipality and Machakos Town Constituency.[3]

Transport

Konza is a junction on the Kenya Railways network. Konza is located along Mombasa - Nairobi railway, and branch line to Magadi diverts at Konza.

Technopolis

Konza will also be host to the proposed Konza Technology City.[4]

gollark: > hoping for more people to die and greater economic damage because it would boost your political ideology
gollark: The economic damage is almost certainly better than the increased deaths/sick people which would result from doing less.
gollark: And I'd argue that not knowing exactly what it can do means you should treat it more seriously.
gollark: It's very infectious, mortality rate between, what, 0.2% and 10%, depending (probably only 10% as an upper bound with really overloaded healthcare), and not really any good treatments yet.
gollark: We have a decent idea.

See also

References
  1. Machakos town constituency: CDF allocation by sector and location (2003-6)
  2. Central Bureau of Statistics (Kenya): Geographic Dimensions of Well-Being in Kenya
  3. Electoral Commission of Kenya: Registration centres by electoral area and constituency Archived June 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Okuttah Mark (14 Feb 2012). "Konza technology park gets a boost from fresh zoning". Business Daily. Retrieved 6 Mar 2012.

Further reading
  • Hidaka, Hiroko (日高 博子 Hidaka Hiroko). 『コンザ村の子どもたち―ケニア・ナイロビ日本人学校教師の記録』 ("Children of Konza Village - Record of a teacher of the Nairobi Japanese School, Kenya"). Holp Shuppan. November 1984. ISBN 978-4593534081. - Profile at Google Books

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