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Death of a party city: Can Nairobi's CBD nightlife ever recover?

Young people partying in a club. (Courtesy/iStock)

Nobody parties like Kenyans. For decades this phrase has been used to characterise the fun-loving nation we are. Since the first discotheques burst out, the party and nightlife have never been the same. For Generation X, the likes of Visions, Lips, The Barn, Beauty and the Beast, Zig Zag, Bubbles, and Ainsworth Club Boomerang are reminiscent of their youth.

Later Nairobi City would host hoards of night clubs which gave the youngin a time of their lives. From Vision, Betty's, F1 or Maddie as it was popularly known, to Tribeca and Mojos, Giggles - where members of the fourth estate would religiously convene to imbibe on frothy drinks as well as exchange notes on the daily occurrences happening in the country, which they had covered for their respective media houses.

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