Ongata Rongai Sustainability
Introduction and physical description Ongata Rongai Location is a small urban shopping center south of the Nairobi National Park in Kenya. In the past two decades it has rapidly grown into a major Nairobi neighborhood due to the availability of relatively cheap and abundant land for commercial and residential development. Two roads, the Magadi and Gataka, connect it to the city, and its wildlife tourism potential has helped to promote its rapid growth. The Ongata Rongai area was formerly inhabited by the Maasai nomadic pastoralist community before many other rural Kenyan groups migrated into the area. Currently it is a residential and commercial center mostly comprised of households practicing subsistence farming, trade in domestic goods, and human services. In the present, most members of the Maasai tribe have sold their land and moved further south and are frequently spotted grazing their cattle during dry seasons near the shopping center. The area is classified as arid to semi-ar...