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Nairobi has a lot of rich people, even right next door......

People say that there are only two groups of people, the haves and the have nots. Everyone wants to be the former but most eventually land on the latter. I today found myself among the haves who had closed out a road to showcase their mega beast bikes. The have nots on matatus or on foot are trying to get to their various destinations but are inconvenienced by the large number of haves who seem oblivious of all this. It's a story so old that people try as much as possible not to scream it in public. This is my story from the nairobian perspective and it all started about 80 years ago.  In those times the haves consisted of the white colonialists and their pets, home guards. The have nots on the other hand consisted of the illiterate, don't want to be bothered towing the line Africans who had their land stolen from them. Amongst these illiterate people some wisdom sprouted, this wisdom was either forced out in the form of forcing at least one child from the homestead to go