When Nairobi was clean and clean and public transport orderly

KBS Double Decker buses in Nairobi in the 1960s [Courtesy]

There was a time Nairobi was truly the Green City in the Sun.

Back then, the streets were clean, and bogus beggars from as far as Tanzania had not yet discovered that street families could be transformed into a thriving regional enterprise.

In the 1960s, double-decker buses plied major city routes and estates with the precision of a synchronised watch. When this photograph, which evokes nostalgic memories of an era long gone, was taken, the well-maintained buses were parked in an orderly manner, perhaps after doing their daily rounds.