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Atwoli Road should lead us to the best monument-naming systems

Francis Atwoli Road sign in Kileleshwa [Courtesy]

Many years ago, there was a plan to introduce tea-picking machines in Kenya, and the reaction was typically Kenyan, with everyone talking and everything getting lost in the noise.

Early in the week, we witnessed such noise when a road in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa, a suburb which is increasingly becoming a concrete jungle and an architectural Tower of Babel, was named after Francis Atwoli, the Cotu secretary general.

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