How Kenyan women drivers are bullied on Nairobi roads

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Driving in the streets of Nairobi is hard enough as it is. You have to deal with rogue matatu drivers who drive recklessly and unexpectedly pull over in the middle of the road to pick and drop passengers. Then there are the annoying boda boda drivers who, while weaving through traffic, come hurtling down at you from the side, or swerve into your lane with no warning whatsoever.

Then you have the jaywalkers who refuse to get out of the road. It is a lot to deal with. But you know you’re in for a whole new level of struggle when you’re a woman behind the wheel. It doesn’t matter whether you are a good driver or not. Here are a few struggles women drivers in Nairobi go through: