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By Peter Wanyonyi
You would not want to be caught up in Nairobi traffic when a dignitary foreign or local, real or imagined is visiting. As in most African republics, we believe that the size of the VIP’s motorcade just like the size, apparently, of his potbelly denotes his importance. And so government functionaries try to put on the biggest motorcades bigger, at least, than those of their political rivals. The result is chaos in Nairobi.
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