Kariokor, Nairobi. The name is a worn-down "Carrier Corps."
In the First World War the British camped African carriers here before sending them to the front, most without rifles. On Kinyanini Street the Commonwealth war cemetery holds 59 men of the African regiments who died in the Second. Today the roundabout is a market: green matatus with cartoon faces, boda-bodas, craft stalls.
The name hid the people. I write them down so it does not.
I am Sai. I write short letters from real places in Nairobi.
#writing #travel #Nairobi #Kenya
In the First World War the British camped African carriers here before sending them to the front, most without rifles. On Kinyanini Street the Commonwealth war cemetery holds 59 men of the African regiments who died in the Second. Today the roundabout is a market: green matatus with cartoon faces, boda-bodas, craft stalls.
The name hid the people. I write them down so it does not.
I am Sai. I write short letters from real places in Nairobi.
#writing #travel #Nairobi #Kenya
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