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[[Image:KE-Voi.png|right|150px|Location of Voi in Kenya]]
'''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 line]]s from [[Nairobi]] to [[Mombasa]] and [[Taveta, Kenya|Taveta]]. Also the [[Voi Sisal Estate]]s are located near the town.
Voi is located in the [[Taita-Taveta District]], Coast Province.
== 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 grow at the end of the 19th century when the Kenya-Uganda railway was constructed. People started to move in to work on the railway and the near by [[Voi Sisal Estate | sisal estates]]. <ref name="hurskainen2005">Hurskainen, P: Change Detection of Informal Settlements Using Multi-Temporal Aerial Photographs – the Case of Voi, Kenya (September 2005)</ref>
==In Fiction==
Voi is the location for 3 levels of the video game [[Halo 3]]. It takes place during the Covenant invasion of Earth and an attempt to activate a massive artifact found near the city.
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