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Hail the matatu, Kenya’s symbol of urban culture

By BEATRICE WAMUYU

Did Kenyans invent the matatu? Certainly not. But perhaps we discovered it. Kenyans turned the tiny 14-seater van into a phenomenon that has come to represent everything ugly — and beautiful — about the highways.

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