When you could be mauled by a lion in Nairobi and Africans didn't count

A report by the Local Government Commission of 1927 paints a picture of a Nairobi which very few people alive today would recognise if they were to travel back in time. [File, Standard]

There was a time when one could walk around Nairobi without fear of stepping on hawkers’ tomatoes or mitumba heels.

The fear of most people allowed by colonial law to set foot on the capital 96 years ago was being mauled by lions and leopards which occasionally visited the city causing panic among horse riders and rickshaw pullers. Cars were few, remember?