Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Nairobi’s streets are fizzing with violence – and I’m glad to be home

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issue 06 July 2024

Nairobi, Kenya

Parliament and City Hall were burning under great columns of smoke and clouds of tear gas hung over Nairobi’s crowded streets fizzing with violence, flying rocks and gunshots. Speeding along the expressway looking down on these running battles, I thought, as I always do, it’s so good to be home in Kenya.

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