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My experience going home from Nairobi CBD during COVID-19 period

I am on the right of the third row of a matatu on my way back to beat the curfew or face a possible thorough beating by the prison officers manning Kamukunji Estate, Eldoret. Like a typical Kamukunji estate matatu, the vehicle hits a pavement while overlapping, and the loud music runs into a dead silent halt. Kamau (not his real name) bangs the dashboard severally, but the incoming sound is too distorted for our ears.

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