I Found Little Somalia In Nairobi Eastleigh Kenya's Key Business Area

In this video ‪@dolphine254‬ takes me to little Somalia in Nairobi KENYA, The place is called Eastleigh and has a big population of Somalis and it's believed to be Kenya's key business area in Nairobi city #UgconnectInKenya #EastleighNairobi #EastleighShoppingMallsKenya

[@tashnahtv6098]

That's one of the warmest, most magnificent feelings... when you go to another country and see your own countrymen. They're like best friends though you'd never seen them before in your entire life. If you were in your own country, you probably never would have met those guys. Why does it seem like you're learning your new language so fast. I just admire that you're taking every opportunity to use what you're learning. The best part is that you aren't afraid to practise publicly. Keep it up.

[@ugconnect]

Indeed was so heartwarming meeting fellow UGANDANS

[@libanmumin3173]

Great, useful and beautiful content, God bless you 🙏

[@dennismoseskibirige4506]

That's how it fills when we meet fellow Ugandans abroad, joy and love, ebony and Ivory.

[@ugconnect]

Indeed

[@bazibumbiira]

Mr Ug it was lovely and vibrant video but I would like to inform you that we have sukali guru even in uganda and its a lot ✌️

[@dennismoseskibirige4506]

@BGT - Bazibumbiira General Trading Limited You're right Lugazi sugar factory, is an example of where it's in plenty

[@EdithMakena-xq6mz]

Nice job bro, and welcome to kenya

[@odebrozidah]

you are a beast Lawrence, more love from Kenya❤

[@ugconnect]

Thanks alot

[@roberthobson133]

😅we even have a little Samalia in London. Good video Lawrence and I just love Dolphine❤. 😊

[@dolphine254]

Thanks for the love ❤️

[@user-mt6jw7ql4g]

As well here in sweden

[@flaviajurua7532]

Am really enjoying these videos with you and Dolphine...

[@ugconnect]

Thanks

[@ytrade469]

Lawrence, this area is more busy then Kampala, however there is more variety of goods & supplies here. NICE!!! Keep it Rolling. Watching from Calgary, Canada

[@ugconnect]

Thanks Papa

[@missedcall.254]

Amazing video!

[@ugconnect]

Thanks!

[@raashidiinabdullahi5583]

Thank you guys from Somalia great job I enjoyed your jokes

[@ugconnect]

You're most welcome dear

[@farmwithalex]

That was anice experience thanks for the video ❤❤

[@ugconnect]

You are most welcome

[@picsandvidstv1348]

I smiled so much when I saw you interacting with brothers from Uganda. It was awesome 🤩

[@ugconnect]

Indeed

[@garyd6468]

Hey brother! I have been following your channel for some time. Love how you present your content and big up Africa! I am visiting Kenya, so have been watching your vlogs for inspiration. I will be in Mombasa tomorrow as well! Any recommendations? Would be kool if we could link up so I could personally give a shout to you and your subscribers, coming all the way from Jamaica/USA!

[@OliverYavet]

Humble and good human being

[@OliverYavet]

Only discovered this channel now, this ugandhan brother is very chill youtuber hope he reaches 1M

[@ugconnect]

Thank you for the kind words brother

[@SLwere]

DOLPHIN 254 is high spirited, God bless her

[@ugconnect]

tHANKS

[@anthonyssemanda5737]

I love the fact that your travelling with a guide

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for watching

[@collinskenya3630]

Mr UG Connect really makes me happy while complaining about the quantity of food in his videos 😅😂, it's good to be real as a man,I can't keep quiet when am not satisfied too, for instance here that bottle of water is too small to quench your thirst 😅😅😅😅...much love from Mombasa ❤

[@ugconnect]

Hahahaha

[@evansbenz9854]

Nice job

[@ugconnect]

Thanks

[@omo926]

Am with you guyz all the way

[@ugconnect]

Thanks alot

[@abuubakarmaxamed4630]

Realy we love uganda and uganda peaple ❤thanks bro

[@ugconnect]

You are most welcome

[@sigane9351]

I have been in uganda almost 1 year , i have experienced one of the welcoming people in this continent , east africa is going to connect for business, and every thing , somalia has got conformed for application of joining East african community (EAC) the technical process will be done for the coming 6 months , i hope one day to visit also mogadishu , and you will warmly welcome 🤚🏼

[@ugconnect]

Thank you for watching

[@user-tj8zw5zp1u]

it is very dangerous in Mogadishu where al-shabab militants carry out terrorist attacks every week

[@dolphine254]

This was a wonderful experience...fanya kazi😂😂

[@ugconnect]

Indeed, Tufanye Kazi

[@edmondkeyah5479]

@ug connect It's funny how people say Somalis in eastliegh are emigrating from Somali other than few exceptions they are ignorant to the fact that Somalis are indigenous people of north eastern kenya and the country somali Somalis in kenya are native to both Kenya and somali just as Ateso people are in kenya and across the border in uganda

[@kevinremmy5724]

"Like Dolphine the fish 254"😍😍😍

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for watching

[@Wengi_Ug]

Sukaringuru in UG used to be used for distilling Gin in der end product de renowned national Gin Uganda Waragi!

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for watching

[@naliaka9318]

Ug Connect, karibu and thank you for coming to Eastleigh. A correction, the Somali people are indigenous to Kenya. Nairobi was originally segregated as the British attempted to divide and rule. So Eastleigh is historically the neighborhood where Kenyan Somalis lived and set up business. The title suggests that it was set up by Somalis from Somalia. I always wonder how Bantu Kenyans would feel if neighbourhoods dominated by us were to be called “little Congo or Kinshasa for example” or Nilotes would feel if neighborhoods or towns they dominate were to be called “little Rumbek, Juba or South Sudan etc.” I am an admirer of both you and Dolphine but I request please respect the ethno diversity of Kenya and stop calling Eastleigh “little Somalia”. When we do that we are excluding a huge segment of our Kenyan sisters and brothers.

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for the correction

[@bella-qz6ls]

There r somalis who r Kenyans likewise there are those that came in as refugees during the war.. Eastleigh was actually more of a black Kenyans and Indian neighborhood prior to that and they left when somalis moved there in droves..I hate the term 'little Mogadishu/Somali' too

[@abdulahiabukar4621]

Eastleigh became a major shopping center after 1991 when businessmen who emigrated from Mogadishu moved their business there because of the peace. Somalis in Kenya( North Eastern) would have been there since 1960s but the market become competitive after Mogadishu traders arrived there 1991.

[@esem135]

​@@abdulahiabukar4621 Majority of the Eastleigh Somali are Kenyan, not Mogadishu Somalis.

[@naliaka9318]

@@abdulahiabukar4621 at the end of the day the original folk there were Kenyans. After all today Somalis from Somalia are found in many upmarket neighborhoods. Are we now to rename those. I was pointing this out because many non Kenyans don’t realize Kenya has indigenous Somalis, Borana, Oromo etc. This characterization of Somalis as non Kenyans is a unique form of bigotry faced only by the Somali. No other Kenyan community consistently faces a questioning of its Kenyaness. Worse still young Kenyan you tubers keep feeding this narrative. So it’s important that we remind each other of the richness of our diversity

[@markisto8655]

First one here

[@ugconnect]

Thanks

[@EdithMakena-xq6mz]

İ want you to come to ngara park road here are many ugandans

[@TheJournal540]

Here we acomadate everyone...

[@bigbig-km1hb]

Most of the europeans know absolutely nothing about Africa, i tell ppl to watch it as it is very interesting, i noticed that you are very comfortable and non formal interacting with strangers, in Europe normally ppl are not so personal and non formal with those they just met, in my country is rather cold mentality..ppl on the streets dont really even talk to each other

[@Umarkov]

I was there but its not busier and chaotic than kampala dt Kampala tabu gani

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for watching

[@angelmalayika5002]

We should buy our brother cheap foni bambi

[@bonfacewachira3297]

Eastleigh is safe no phone snachers just a busy street

[@ivanatuhairwe]

It looks busier than Kampala down town

[@ugconnect]

Almost the same

[@kevinremmy5724]

By the way in Kenya foreigners are being treated fairly but why Kenyans in other African countries don't get the same treatment.

[@ugconnect]

Sorry

[@davidcornel2060]

You'll notice almost every Somali business person in eastleigh or luthuli avenue has an iphone 12 ,13 or a newer version, its almost a brand. 😅

[@ugconnect]

A status

[@ranchgreen2497]

Mostly their families are in abroad so they send money every month and that’s why they take advantage of money exchange like 1$ From America is 150 shillings in Kenya 😮

[@shuwebmohamed]

Subscription

[@quinnskitchen8486]

Actually there are many Ugandans in Eastleigh working for Somalis

[@ugconnect]

Good to hear

[@naliaka9318]

By the way you know that the Wanga Kingdom of Western Kenya was the Eastern front of the Bunyoro Kitara Empire and was part of the inter lacustrine kingdoms of East and Central Africa. The Wanga monarch, when he realized he had fallen into the British is trap entered into a pact with the Somali. So in Western Kenya in the two major towns of Kakamega and Bungoma there are Somali communities who are today indigenous to those parts of the country. In Kakamega this neighborhood is called Kampi Somali. Nabongo Mumia gave his daughter (one of the princesses) to a Somali man in marriage. Her descendants live in North Eastern Kenya and speak. We as Africans have our own indigenous links. Both Kakamega and Bungoma counties border Uganda I am not surprised you are meeting your country men in Eastleigh. There is a more ancient connection

[@ugconnect]

Very informative info

[@unjubinunuk5917]

The ones in western Kenya are originally from Somaliland(Hargeisa), not NE province. They belong to the Isaq and harti clans which are only found in Somaliland.

[@naliaka9318]

@@unjubinunuk5917 oh I didn’t know that

[@unjubinunuk5917]

@@naliaka9318 infact they were brought by the British from Somaliland as support 4 the army in concuring Kenya. Most of them are in Isiolo, Nanyuki and western counties. They usually say “sisi ni Ma-British”

[@naliaka9318]

@@unjubinunuk5917 oh wow. You learn something new every day. Anyway for me after over a century in Western they are as good as indigenous now. We really can’t say they are not part of us. Wanga is very interesting the kings had Maasai mercenaries and parts of Nyanza such as Gem were under his dominion so they had subjects who were not Luhya. On the other hand Luhya sub nations such as the Bukusu had rebelled against the throne. I find it interesting as a pre colonial state.

[@markkemboi5301]

Muganda wange oliotya

[@ugconnect]

Ndi bulungi

[@legittraveller1465]

Ug connect, welcome to Kenya,,am legit traveller upcoming youtuber here in Kenya,,plz don't leave Kenya without visiting these places,, *Nairobi giraffe centre. *Two rivers (biggest mall in EA) *Karura Forest *14 falls *Rift valley *Kilimani

[@ugconnect]

Thanks

[@jamesmaina7004]

To be honest people who snatch phones nowadays are far in between and not as often as it was decades ago. Virtually everyone in Kenya has a phone these days. The rat 5:13 io is 1:4 out of a population of 50 million Kenyans. So theft of phones not that rampant.

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for watching

[@moshajexplore]

Dolphin failed to tell you that the mall is currently the biggest in africa

[@ugconnect]

She mentioned it

[@bonfacewachira3297]

Ugandans are welcome in kenya 🇰🇪

[@ugconnect]

Thanks

[@esem135]

People need to know that Kenya shares a border with Somalia and Ethiopia and so there are common tribes between these countries. Those Somalis in Eastleigh are as Kenyan as it gets!! They are not Mogadishu Somalis. Quit this nonsense titles please. They create a misleading tone. Somalis are Kenya's 6th largest tribe and occupy one third of Kenya in the North Eastern region. Eastleigh is also not Somali territory but you get many of them there. All types of Kenyans live and work in Eastleigh.

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for the info

[@alireact1827]

We understand but we know somali is not a Tribe. All these Somali people came to Kenya only 30 years ago. So they are not somali Kenyans. Just years ago they were refugees with nothing. And today half of the economy depend on them

[@OmarHaji-fd3zf]

Most of these people are from mugdisho and i am one of them even the owner biggest mall he is from mugdisho somalis is somalis wherever we are we are one familly

[@gsamoei]

Mumunya is not far from 'lick'

[@ugconnect]

😳

[@bonfacewachira3297]

😂😂😂...its funny how Kenyans think goods are cheap in UG

[@ugconnect]

Hhaha

[@passport_light]

I'm very lucky i come here this week let's meet bro

[@mfumukibangu]

Those are kenyan somalis don't call it little somalia

[@fellybilal]

Kenyan somali will come at you bro with that title

[@ugconnect]

Why

[@esem135]

​@Ug Connect Because the Somalis in Eastleigh are mostly Kenyan Somali and not Mogadishu Somali. It is like telling them they are not Kenyan. Can you imagine telling Kenyan Luo they are Ugndan Luo by linking them with the area in UG where Luos are found?

[@osmandhiblaawe739]

long live somali is somali mogadisho and eastlight are same face

[@bonfacewachira3297]

The guy was complaining coz he is a Muslim n Muslim are superstitious about camera

[@ugconnect]

Thanks for the feedback