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2021 Nostalgia Street: When Nairobi truly was city in the sun

Moi Avenue, the 1960s. [File, Standard]

Nairobi has always been a city addicted to nostalgia. The more time passes by, and superhighways and ‘sky expresses’ and infrastructure projects snarl-up traffic and everything gets noisier, the more Kenyans’ hearts ache for a time when everything was quieter and the traffic lighter, and Nairobi truly was the ‘city in the sun'. We take you to the heart of the CBD when it was just called ‘town,’ and before this city became ‘KaNairo,’ in this two-part series

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