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Building castles in Nairobi's corrupted air

Bags of cement in arranged in a row on the palace in the shed. [File, Standard]

Again and again, the House of Prayer watched as lonely figures paced up and down in front of the mabati gate. The script was always the same.

A truck would approach the gate, either from the tunnel branching off the Mombasa Road to Ole Sereni Hotel or occasionally from South C direction.

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