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Separate and unequal
NAIROBI, EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE (KENYA), c.1914
Known as 'the Green City in the Sun', the cosmopolitan metropolis of Nairobi is now one of
the most important urban centres in Africa. Yet little more than a century ago its site was just
a swamp. The settlement originated in 1899 as a depot on the Uganda Railway, which was
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