@@chomasensiit's in Japanese culture to be obsessed with cleanliness. Plus have you heard of New Yorkers complaining about literal shit in the streets? Plus Nairobi has some very clean areas and the city wasn't as big then.
They say Nairobi was better organized back then. As one born in the late 80's, this video is a gem. If you pay very close attention, it would appear that the city was just less congested, less full back then-not necessarily better organized. Pay close attention, perhaps I am wrong though.
we need to get rid of matatus and have proper transportation system like trams, invest in bicycle infrastructure ect. Also we need to kill this car obsession that's plaguing our cities and neighborhoods!
They really did. It seems like we've experienced a downgrade in some parts of the city not just physically (infrastructure), but culturally/socially too.
My mum was born at this time I moved to Nairobi after secondary school in 2007 after skirmishes started hustling in industrial then got a job in Njimia Pharmacy cooperative House quit back home come again In Nairobi late 2012 worked in Eastleigh got married in 3 YEARS LATER WENT back to college nopw I am in Bahrain Nairobi made me to be Man and travel the world.
I am still around. I was 6 to 7 years old then and the area shown in the video (Biashara Street, Moi Avenue, and River Road conjunction) was my stomping ground. Nairobi was more laid back then and easy to get around and run errands in what is now called the CBD.
@@projectskipchumba536 Man. Fuck that place. I can really imagine where this dude lived because there's lots of very old Indian architecture along that road.
I saw the city at it's best growing up and finishing high school in 1970. Back then we simply took it for granted and didn't appreciate the efforts made by the people in charge to keep the city in that condition. Nairobi was uncrowded, neat, quiet, and safe. Black, white and brown people mixed freely, shops didn't have metal grills, public transport was orderly and smooth, the people were decently dressed and civilized. I saw it all, until corruption and looting began in the late seventies. The rest is history and no one feels sad for Nairobi more than those of us who actually witnessed the decay. I'm now 71 and I wouldn't dare enter the city now, it's dead.
This was just 2 years after Independence?? 2 years ago they were slaves and yet they were soooo organised, learned, well-dressed, unbelievable. Even someone not in white-collar job was tucked in and neat. You would think we're in 1965 and they're in 2023
People talking about how clean and peaceful it looked, and they are right. But I noticed one bad thing: no trees! Looks like Nairobi's "Green City in the Sun" reputation is more recent.
@@tardytoe836well I bet you think that due to higher school enrollment rate but fail to regard it's diminishing quality over the years. Our poor education quality is a documented fact and one way to see it is the lack of skills and competencies once people are out of school. If you also see a random educated Kenyan talk back in 1960s and take one now there's a very big difference in their cognitive capacity where the former is clearly more analytical than the latter. We process a banch of illiterates and call that education.
@@tardytoe836 there is a difference between literate "able to read and write" and educated... you can be all literate you want but ignorant, uncultured & uneducated person
A proper city before the mismanagement and subsequent pillage by Gumo, Kidero, Sonkwe,🤢😡 Now the city is cluttered and littered by all manner of trash.. Illegal concrete structures have been erected in every borough and residential estates creating a traffic nightmare but also compromising our collective safety. Our children are not safe to walk to and from schools. Nairobi has a deficit of 30000 first responders, the future Nairobi and only God knows the magnitude of an obvious impending danger that come with this levels of construction in a city with a deficit of 19000 fully equiped fire brigade. I fore see a Grenfell esk fire disastor in these nairobi death traps!
