Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
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As a follow-up to the episode featuring Stephen Jennings, we’re releasing two bonus conversations showing the daily life, culture, and politics of Nairobi and Kenya at large. This first installment features Harriet Muriithi. Harriet is a 22-year-old hospitality professional living and working in Tatu City, a massive mixed-used development spearheaded by Jennings. Harriet grew up in the picturesque foothills of Mount Kenya before moving to the capital city as a child to pursue better schooling. She has witnessed Nairobi's remarkable growth firsthand over the last decade. An ambitious go-getter, Harriet studied supply chain management and wishes to open her own high-end restaurant.
In her conversation with Tyler, Harriet opens up about her TikTok hobby, love of fantasy novels, thoughts on improving Kenya's education system, and how she leverages AI tools like ChatGPT in her daily life, the Chinese influence across Africa, the challenges women face in village life versus Nairobi, what foods to sample as a visitor to Kenya, her favorite musicians from Beyoncé to Nigerian Afrobeats stars, why she believes technology can help address racism, her Catholic faith and church attendance, how COVID-19 affected her education and Kenya’s recovery, the superstitions that persist in rural areas, the career paths available to Kenya's youth today, why Nollywood movies captivate her, the diversity of languages and tribes across the country, whether Kenya’s neighbors impact prospects for peace, what she thinks of the decline in the size of families, why she enjoys podcasts about random acts of kindness, what infrastructure and lifestyle changes are reshaping Nairobi, if the British colonial legacy still influences politics today, and more.
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Recorded June 12th, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Sam, one of the producers of Conversations with Tyler. |
| 0:08.6 | Today we're releasing two bonus episodes to go along with episode 193 featuring Steven |
| 0:13.6 | Jennings. |
| 0:15.0 | These two episodes show fascinating elements of the daily life, the culture and the politics |
| 0:19.8 | of Nairobi and Kenya as a whole. |
| 0:22.6 | In this episode, part one, you'll hear from Harriet Marathi, a young woman working in |
| 0:27.0 | Tatsu City, a 5,000 acre mixed-use development just north of Nairobi. |
| 0:32.4 | After this episode, make sure to check out part two to hear from the perspective of an |
| 0:35.8 | elder, Katai Gattinji, who also works in Tatsu City, for our contrasting perspective of |
| 0:41.4 | the rapidly developing country of Kenya. |
| 0:44.3 | Now on to the show. |
| 0:50.1 | Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. |
| 0:55.3 | Bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems, learn more at Mercatus.org. |
| 1:02.3 | For a full transcript of every conversation, enhanced with helpful links, visit Conversationswithtiler.com. |
| 1:12.6 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. |
| 1:16.4 | I am sitting here right outside of Nairobi, Kenya, in Tatsu City, and I will be speaking |
| 1:22.0 | with Harriet Marathi. |
| 1:25.0 | She's a 22-year-old hostess and waitress. |
| 1:27.8 | She works at a restaurant, roast by Carnivore, located in Tatsu City. |
| 1:33.5 | She's worked there for a year and a half, and she has strong interests in the hospitality |
| 1:38.4 | sector. |
| 1:39.8 | She studied supply chain management at the Kiyambu Institute of Science and Technology |
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