Birthday Thoughts On the Road to Thika

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Roads so badly designed that they always flood; motorways so poorly maintained that they constitute a death trap; power cuts as a way of life; telephone lines so fragile that they fizz and die with the first drop of rain; that delightful combination of open sewers and dry kitchen taps: infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.

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Birthday Thoughts On the Road to Thika

My birthday this year was spent in the mother of all traffic jams on a Nairobi motorway, sprawled on the red velour seat of a 30-year-old Volvo, breathing in carbon monoxide from a hundred throbbing engines. It was meant to be spent at dinner with friends, but ...

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