Unless collective action is taken now to transform cities like Nairobi into the drivers of economic development and sources of opportunity that they are supposed to be, they will become a tinderbox of perpetual inequality. For the sake of the millions of people like my mother – and, more important, for the sake of their children and grandchildren – we must fulfill the promise that attracts the poor to cities in the first place.
城市不仅是非洲的未来，也是非洲的现在。除非我们现在采取集体行动让内罗毕等城市变成人们所希望那样的经济发展的推动力和机会的源泉，否则它们将成为点燃不平等性的干柴烈火。为了千百万我母亲这样的人民的命运——以及更重要的，为了他们的子孙后代的命运——我们必须实现一开始吸引穷人来到城市的承诺。