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A Glimpse of East African Life, April 2005
Well I’ve just arrived in Nairobi today – a little bleary eyed after an allnight bus trip that bounced and jarred it’s way for 12 hours from Uganda. Nairobi is a bustling, modern city with an attractive urban landscape that …