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Nairobi City
***** Location: Kenya
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Earth
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Explanation
Nairobi
is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi Province. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters".
However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is surrounded by several expanding villa suburbs.
Founded in 1899 as a simple rail depot on the railway linking Mombasa to Uganda, the town quickly grew to become the capital of British East Africa in 1907 and eventually the capital of a free Kenyan republic in 1963. During Kenya's colonial period, the city became a centre for the colony's coffee, tea and sisal industry.
Nairobi is also the capital of the Nairobi Province and of the Nairobi District. The city lies on the Nairobi River, in the south of the nation, and has an elevation of 1795 m above sea-level.
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From the Kenya Saijiki
***** . Nairobi Bomb Day (8 August 1998)
***** . Nairobi International Trade Fair
***** Jeevanjee Gardens and Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee
***** . Kayole and Patanisho
***** . Marikiti Market
Wakulima Market (Farmers' Market)
***** . Mkokoteni hand cart .
***** . Hamza terminus
***** . Langata cemetery
***** . Nairobi Animal Orphanage
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
Kibera
Kibera is a division of Nairobi Area, Kenya, and a province and neighbourhood of the city of Nairobi, located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city centre. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the second largest urban slum in Africa.
The neighbourhood is divided into a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto East, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga, Makina and Mashimoni. Conditions in Kibera are extremely poor, and most of its residents lack access to basic services, including electricity and running water.
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HAIKU
Haiku from Patrick Wafula
Wakulima Market--
soiled porters offload mangoes
from lorries
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muddy pick-up trucks
queue to offload tomatoes--
Soweto Market
Soweto stage market --
women buy cabbages
vyondos are full
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even beggars
line up mangoes for sale--
Haile Selassie Avenue
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truants swimming
in a seasonal lake--
Jogoo Road
traffic lights
on Jogoo Road--
smell of hot tires
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Last week, some bulldozers and caterpillars cut down all the grevillea tress along Landhies Road in order to expand the road. My goodness, how naked or can I say bare, the road is now! Isabelle Sensei, you will never those beautiful trees again, they are gone forever.
saw-dust scented
air on Landhies road--
fallen grevilleas
a bulldozer bites log
after log to load the lorries--
sliced grevillea
Muthurwa food vendors
filling sacks with saw dust--
whirring power saw
The Muthurwa food vendors are collecting the saw dust to use it as fuel for cooking food on their braziers.
September 22, 2010
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. Landhies Road haiku
by Andrew Otinga
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Photo by Patrick Wafula
bare jacaranda branches
adorned in purple blossoms--
Moi Avenue
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Patrick on January 2011, coming back from a trip
Nairobi sunset—
an orange sun sitting
on the Ngong Hills
Nairobi sunset—
flying crows littering
the orange dusk sky
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Doonholm road-
my tall shadow cast on
rusty mabati
Andrew Otinga
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Soweto market--
loud speakers advetise
Valentine products
Valentine morning--
vendors arrange flowers
in the wheelbarrow
Valentine day--
flower's hawker whistles
from door to door
Caleb Mutua, Kenya
Kenya Saijiki Forum February 2010
Muthurwa Market--
school girls gather around
success card vendors
Muthurwa Market--
the cabbage vendor juggles
a big one
Caleb Mutua, Kenya
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soweto stage --
muddy water stuck on
displayed potatoes
muthurwa market --
a boy struggles to pull
a cart from mud
Sibiko Yamame Winslause
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Soweto stage--
she slices pineaples
into a white bowl
Andrew Otinga
September 2010
Soweto market-
greenish mould sprouts over
a decayed tomato
Asava Kelvin
Soweto market-
a naked madman eats
a rotten watermelon
muthoki
September 2010
. SOWETO VILLAGE - poetic haibun
free verse : Beryl Achieng
haiku : James Bundi
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Soweto market--
she sprinkles water
on withered vegetable
Douglas Nugi
July 2011
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an old man
repairs an old bicycle
along thika road
Antony Njoroge
The expansion of Thika Road, a ten lane highway, considered the busiest highway in East Africa.
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Thika highway--
a boda boda motorbike
hit a truck
Thika highway--
the late schoolgirls are stuck
on the other side
Barrack Elungata
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Tom Mboya street--
city council officers chase
the mango hawkers
Caleb Mutua
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Muthurwa terminus--
a new peddler hawks
boiled maize
hussein haji
Muthurwa bus terminal
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sunny afternoon -
a coiled spider web sparkles
on a Kayaba fence
Sibiko Yamame Winslause
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At Masimba I witnessed a thief who had stolen a mobile phone and he was in the hands ofthe public:
Masimba stage-
blood stuck on the
stumbled blocks
Masimba stage-
blood trickling on his
left shoulder
Sibiko Yamame Winslause
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Machakos Country Bus Station
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Machakos terminus-
a short man advertising his
herbal merchandise
Andrew Otinga
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Donholm road-
my tall shadow cast on
rusty mabati
Andrew Otinga
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. Uhuru Park .
and a concert by Ricardo Muti
July 9, 2011
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the muddy path
coloured with flowers...
Kawangare
Anthony Njoroge
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. Ngong Road
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Related words
Life in Nairobi
. . . Weekly collection of Caleb . . .
Place Names used in Haiku
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