Obama puts Kenya in touch with her conscience

So it was possible to beautify the city in one short week, cart away the eyesore that is street families, paint the roads, plant and water grass in record time and fix security lights in a flash?

And oh, who would have thought the authorities in Nairobi actually noticed the gaping potholes, which have now been masked and in their place, tarmac as black as the ace of spades now gives the façade of a great tropical city basking in endless sun?