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How Nairobi has defied plagues and poor planning

Kenyatta Avenue previously Delamere Avenue in 1960s. [File, Standard]

Nairobi's true name ought to have been resilience. It is like that unwanted love child that defies the circumstances of its birth, fights off diseases and catastrophes, at times walking out of its predicaments to confront the very guardians who dismissed it as an outcast.

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