Franken-Arusha: Destroying African Cities to Colonize Mars

In an effort to save costs in a grand effort to colonize space, the Chinese government builds a huge spaceport near Arusha in the Volcanic lands of Tanzania.

The city, and the landscape, is hyper-industrialised, dislocating humans and wildlife in the process, to harness volcanic and geothermal energy so as to blast spaceships into orbit and beyond. Welcome to the Arusha of the future; Franken-Arusha!