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Nairobi is Kenya’s seat of power, the country’s capital city as well as its industrial city. These attributes have seen the capital bear the biggest brunt as the preferred place for settlement with the pull factor being a better life and job opportunities. As Judith Akolo reports, Nairobi that was known as the “place of cool waters,” has arguably become the place of running sludge decades into independence.
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Kenya at 60 I We revisit Nairobi city of the 1960s and its transformation to its current state
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