Kabete is a town just outside Nairobi

Nairobi

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 borders in the Central Province

Central Province (Kenya)

Kenya's Central Province covers an area of 13,191 km² and is located to north of Nairobi and west of Mt. Kenya. The province had 4,383,743 inhabitants according to the 2009 census...

 of Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

. Administratively, Kabete is a location

Locations of Kenya

||Locations are a type of administrative region in Kenya. Location are a fourth level subdivision below Provinces, Districts and Divisions. Locations are further subdivided into Sub-locations . As of 1999 census there were 2,427 locations and 6,612 sublocations in Kenya .Each division in Kenya is...

 in the Kikuyu

Kikuyu, Kenya

Kikuyu is a town in the Central Province of Kenya. The town is located 20 km northwest of central Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Kikuyu hosts a town council and an administrative division in the Kiambu District....

 division of the Kiambu District

Kiambu District

Kiambu District is an administrative district in the Central Province of Kenya. Its capital town is Kiambu. The district is adjacent to the northern border of Nairobi and has a population of 744,010....

. Kabete is also name for one of the five constituencies in the Kiambu district.

Kabete and its environs is inhabited mostly by Kikuyu people. Kabete location has a total population of 29308 (1999 census http://www.worldbank.org/research/povertymaps/kenya/ch5.3.1.pdf).

A study in 2005 revealed that Kabete constituency has the lowest poverty rate in Kenya http://www.ilri.org/ilripubaware/uploaded%20files/TS_051102_001_TheGreatDivide.pdf. However, most residents live off farming and are not particularly rich.

Anthropologist Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there...

was born in Kabete. His nickname was Giteru and hence the reference Kabete gwa Giteru (Meaning Kabete, Giteru's place).