Let's start with Budalang'i, Kenya, a town of some 60,000 people near the Ugandan border, which is slated to get its first college next year, despite the fact that the entire place floods several times a year:
"When you hear of Budalang'i, you easily relate it to floods and all sorts of calamities but that will soon be in the past if we embrace education. We cannot always grow through the conservative ways of industrialization. Look at Boston which is a world class city thanks to education. It has many top range universities and there is where Budalangi is going," [MP Ababu Namwamba] said.
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How is this local news?
By Molokhia
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 6:27am
??
Couple of reasons
By adamg
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 7:54am
The "world-class" thing is a big Boston thing. "If only Boston had X, we'd be world class."
It's interesting that a legislator on the other side of the planet is looking to Boston, specifically, for inspiration on how to become world class.
I thought it was a funny juxtaposition (maybe I'm easily amused) with the recent Globe article about "the next Somerville."
OK, that was three things ...
Ehh ...
By Somebody Else.
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 11:31am
Give it twenty years. Boston will flood a few times per year, too ...
snort
By cybah
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 6:40am
World class... *snort*
(good for them but still.. World class + Boston in the same sentence.. *snort*)
Cybah you know I love a good
By Carty
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 7:56am
Cybah you know I love a good argument in the morning. I think one could easily argue, and I therefore shall, that Boston's higher education, medical, and technology institutions draw people from literally all over the world. How would you define "world class"? Which American cities meet your definition?
I snort because...
By cybah
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 8:46am
I snort because every time one of the politicians has a great (read: lousy) idea they always say "To make Boston a world class city"... it's just kind of funny to hear this city in Kenya call us "World Class" in that manner.
I do not disagree that boston could be world class in terms of healthcare, and education, because we are. SO yeah they are right. It still made me snort this morning.
:)
By Carty
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 8:51am
:)
Budalang'i, 2028
By Ari O
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 8:13am
They're pretty much shoo-ins to host the Olympics now, right?
For the right donation to our
By IOC
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 9:27am
For the right donation to our Swiss bank accounts.
Clarendon canal.
By Somebody Else.
Mon, 10/27/2014 - 12:20pm
The Venice of the West.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29761274
http://boston.uli.org/uli-in-action/sustainability/