Mercy Njeri has been operating a food joint on Mara Road, Upper Hill in Nairobi, for close to a decade. Every lunch hour, she is all smiles as she watches hordes of hungry workers troop to the kiosk. Business is booming.
Behind the smile, however, is a worried woman. Worried that the same construction boom that brings her brisk business could also spell doom for her. The plot adjacent to her kiosk is already earmarked for the construction of yet another skyscraper.