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'Voi' is a market town in southern Kenya, lying on the edge of the Tsavo National Park. It lies at the junction of the railway lines from Nairobi to Mombasa and Taveta.
Voi is located in the Taita-Taveta District, Coast Province.

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History

According to local history the name of town comes from a slave trader called Chief Kivoi who settled near the Voi river about 400 hundred years ago. There after the town grew as a trade post between the local Taita people, other Kenyan tribes and Arabs.
The town started to grew in end of 19th century when the Kenya-Uganda railway was constructed. People started move in to work on the railway and the near by sisal estates. ^[1]

Popular Culture

Voi is also mentioned in in a track entitled Road to Voi. It ties in with the fact that some of the game takes place in 'New Mombasa, East Africa Protectorate' (present-day Mombasa, Kenya).
Voi later became an official part of Halo canon and as an environment within the campaign of Halo 3. Within the game's context, Voi is a large industrialized city, that the player must reach by travelling along a fictional highway.^[2] Halo 3 Cover Story, EGM, , , Electronic Gaming Monthly,

References

1. Hurskainen, P: Change Detection of Informal Settlements Using Multi-Temporal Aerial Photographs – the Case of Voi, Kenya (September 2005)
2. Finish the Fight, Edge (UK), , , Edge, 2007

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