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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.

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