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The audacity of freedom after jailbreak from cages of Nairobi's old estates in Eastlands

I recently returned to my boyhood haunt in Nairobi's Eastlands, before it is knocked down under the suspicious project known as Affordable Housing. The modest dwellings, constructed under a proper affordable housing project in the 1960s housed junior cadre of civil servants, but now will be torn down to accommodate newer houses projected to rise many floors up.

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