Nairobi's good old days were just as bad

When I came to Nairobi many years ago, there was a restaurant called Lavarini’s on what was then Government Road, which is now Moi Avenue.

Although it was housed in an ancient building with a low-slung sloping red iron-sheet roof that has since been pulled down and replaced with a more modern edifice, it was clear even to a village yokel like me that it was no ordinary establishment.