Steve Rao Reports Live from Nairobi, Kenya
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- So where are you right now, Steve? - I'm in Nairobi, Kenya. I came to visit our daughter, who's a journalism student here, actually studying and working at Reuters. And I came to visit her and then did a safari. It was quite amazing. I saw lions and elephants and then did a little tooling here. And it's been quite amazing to be here and see another country. And here I am, think about it, right? I mean, I'm on WPTF from Africa. - That's right. - Quite amazing. Yeah, it's amazing how that works out. So what's it been like over there? And you mentioned why you went over there, but what's it been like? - Well, you know, it's pretty interesting. I, first of a couple of things, Jeff. I mean, I think the infrastructure here and the energy is much higher than I had thought. We don't really hear about what's going on at the continent of Africa or the country like Kenya. There's not as much awareness of what's going on in the United States. I mean, people know Trump's gonna be the next president again, but they're like, you know, that's fine. Let's just move on. I think there's a lot of entrepreneurship and today's Independence Day in Kenya. And so it's great to be here on that day. But, you know, there's a billion people on the continent of Africa. And I think there's a lot of business opportunity, trade opportunity, economic opportunity. So I'm coming back to North Carolina with ideas to give to Governor Stein and whoever his commerce secretary is because I think this is untapped potential here. And of course, you know, there's still poverty. There's a lot of poverty. But I think there's a growing middle class. That's what I've noticed, like the food, the restaurants, the malls, the infrastructure. Just, I mean, when we went to a movie tonight, we went to go see Wicked. The theater was as nice as when I would go in and carry a Morse book. - Oh, really? - You know, yeah.
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