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*Some of Oprah Winfrey’s goodwill in Africa has rubbed off on comedian Chris Rock, who was among the celebrities invited to the grand opening of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa last week.
While in town, Rock and his wife traveled north to spend some time in the Eastern country of Kenya, reports AFP. En route to an exotic game reserve, the Rocks took time out to visit one of the country’s largest slums in Kibera. An estimated 800,000 people are housed there. Rock promised he would search for ways in which he can help the country’s poor.
"I have come to Kibera to see for myself the blight of this people (and) see what we can do," he said in the Kibera slums, south of Nairobi, full of leaking sewage and cardboard houses.
Rock – who was reported to have begun divorce proceedings from his wife Malaak Compton-Rock on Nov. 3 but now appears to be reconciling – said of his decision to visit Kibera: "I go where ever my wife tells me to go."
"I will be spending quite a few days in Maasai Mara," Rock added. Maasai Mara is world-renowned for its abundant wildlife, rolling savannah and luxury safari camps.
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