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“After Chinese firms finished the construction project, Kenyans kept the prefab houses. They went like hot cakes,” explained Susan, the founder of a Kenyan female empowerment foundation. Soila is in her 50s and has worked a extensively the Maasai, an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Kenya and Tanzania. Driving along the highway Nairobi towards Mombasa, I saw many of the traditional Maasai housings made of packed earth. Susan described some of the dangers of these traditional structures; they are, for instance, not fireproof. Some of them, she explained, aspire to live in new types of homes.Pre...