Revealed: Nairobi’s CBD dying as center of evening entertainment

Simmers was demolished [Photo: Edward Kiplimo]

If a nostalgic Kenyan who has been away, say in the USA, from May 2010 searched ‘Simmers, CBD’ on Google Maps, surprisingly, they would still find it where it was - just opposite I&M Tower on Kenyatta Avenue.

If they then took the next step, pardon the pun, and physically went there, they would be astonished to come across a Firestone tyre centre-cum-semi-vacant lot, or something like that. Either way, it would be a far cry from the evenings twilight lasses, mutura guys, mzungu visitors and Congolese band members in oversize pants would light up that spot on ‘Main Street,’ 24/7/365.