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Nairobi city's leading export will surprise the nation

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Aerial view of a section of godowns in Embakasi, Nairobi, May 2020. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Nairobi is a great city, even welcoming us back after the Christmas holidays. Seen the billboards? Once we get into the city, we don't leave. After forty years, I am still trying to leave the city.

The city, whose location was well thought out, between the endless plains and well-watered highlands, has been there for more than a century.

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