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Nairobi South Primary School: Where Kasavuli, Kathy Kiuna, Redsan chewed maembe pilipili

Nairobi South Primary School (NSPS)was established in 1954, solely to serve Asian children, but became multi-racial after independence.

Situated in Nairobi's South B estate, it now boasts Christian, Muslim and Hindu students, who besides chewing books and P.E. also sampled goodies from the nearby kiosk owned by 'Shosh' (cucu) and selling crisps, cake, soda, mabuyu, butter drop sweets, biscuits and sweet mangoes spiced with chili.

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