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Why Kenyatta market is Nai's 'hair capital'

They come from far and wide just to have their hair done at Nairobi’s Kenyatta Market. They are mostly middle-class women who drive or are driven for kilometres on end to Kenyatta Market, once famed for meat, but equally so for hair braiding, lines and twisting.  

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