A Small Town in Africa (1994), a book about Waugh's experiences while living for six months at Isiolo in the Eastern Province of Kenya, was well received.
Even though the capital and largest city in Kenya, Nairobi is situated on high altitudes which is Southern Kenya, most of Kenya especially the counties in the North of Nairobi especially past Isiolo are either Arid or Semi-Arid and are therefore classified as ASAL Areas.
Isiolo |
Buffalo Springs National Reserve, a protected area in the Isiolo District of Eastern Province, Kenya
Isiolo County is to be the first county to be developed as part of the Kenya Vision 2030 program.
The rates of HIV/AIDS have been affected by the high level of truck traffic passing through Isiolo which has fuelled a sex trade regionally.
Trans-African Highway (TAH 4), Cairo–Gaborone–(Pretoria/Cape Town) Highway, 10,228 km: the completion of the stretch of highway from Dongola to Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan and the road from the Galabat border crossing in North-Western Ethiopia leaves only 2 stretches unpaved: between Isiolo and Moyale in northern Kenya (dubbed 'the road to hell' by overland travellers) and the gravel section through Dodoma in central Tanzania.
The other inhabits a particular area (elevated between 600m and 1,350m) lying between Isiolo and Garba Tula.