Charles T delei @deleicharles - Twitter Profile

Nairobi of 1990’s & Early 2000’s Was a Beauty! You can’t compare Nairobi of now with that of 1990’s & early 2000’s! I finished School of Law in early 1990’s & joined the law firm of HE Moses Wetang’ula, my first & last employer! I lived in Ngong Town & used KBS route 111 to commute. The bus I took at 6:32am arrived everyday same time without fail. The streets of Nairobi didn’t have litter & there were lorries vacuum cleaners that cleaned the roads. Always grateful to Weta for holding my hand when I was barely in my early 20’s. Then I moved through different estates from Lang’ata to Lavington to Kileleshwa as my income increased. I then bought my first house in then beautiful & upscale Kilimani. There is no day I missed water in my house. Kilimani had such beautiful ambiance: nice roads, amazing restaurants & clubs and our neighour was State House! Nairobi had many wonderful restaurants: RedBull at Transnational Plaza, Alan Bobbie’s Bistro on Koinange, Thorn Tree at the Stanley, Pango in Fairview, Mandhari in Serena, Panda in Fedha Towers, Tamarind in National Bank next to CBK & Lavarini on Moi Avenue. The food was gourmet. Service was exemplary. Seats were always full. I was lucky to have Gideon Moi as my friend & client then. Always had our table reserved in all these restaurants. Always grateful to him. And you could swim & fish in Nairobi Dam! And for those wanting clubbing & nocturnal life, choices abound. I never used to go out those days but my friends tell me such clubs as Florida 2000, Madhouse, Lips, Ainsworth& later Ibiza! And for those that wanted sexual escapade, entire Koinange Street offered respite at the cheap! And don’t forget Sabina Joy! Nairobi of 1990’s was vibrant, clean, efficient, multicultural, hip & kaleidoscope! The Nairobi we have now is chaotic, unplanned & rough! Nairobi of then knew that the Nairobi National Park was for the fittest to survive. The animals in the park must now be seeing Nairobians in reverse binoculars! Only the toughest can survive Nairobi of now with its broken roads & raw sewage! CBD has shut down. At night, Nairobi is a ghost town. No great city shuts down at night. How times change! How progress becomes retrogress!

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