Nairobi, whose name means ‘cool water’ in Maasai, is a great transport hub, springing into being because it was a convenient place to put a railway terminus during the building of Kenya’s famous ‘Lunatic Line’ in 1899. Since then, it has sprawled upwards and outwards to house a population of nearly three million. Its low-level colonial buildings now jostle equally for space with mirror-fronted skyscrapers, concrete apartment blocks and rickety tin shacks. Sadly, the city...
[Nairobi guide]