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Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Title : Bus station Artist: Patrick Esenerwa Medium : plastic
encountered my first Nairobi River, and the plastic garbage and sewage
experience with flying latrine was too busy during leading to the Nairobi River.
I latrines on top of my daybreak hours. The The oink noises of pigs and
oxidized mabati (iron plastic art reminded me of piglets, the clucking sound
sheet) house years ago in my deplorable life in the of hens, and the baa cries of
the Eastlands of Nairobi. Mathare slum. I live 100 goats were heard throughout
Every morning at 5 a.m., I meters away from a stinking midnight from the stinking
would watch my neighbors’ garbage heap near St. garbage land. The chorus
children relieve themselves Christopher’s ACK Church, of school children imitating
in a plastic bag and then where I have been casting Miss Wailimo, the teacher,
throw the bag away in any my vote since 1992 in favor was normal during the
direction. My landlord of His Excellency, Rt. Hon. week at Gorofa Ya Juu
had only constructed one Eng., Raila Odinga. Next Primary School. I missed
latrine that was 200 meters to that election polling my neighbor’s church and
away near the famous station was a big land of a loudspeaker just next
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