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The light is green, the light is red, who cares, this is Nairobi, just get a move on, will you?

Vehicles wait for the traffic lights to allow them to move along Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG

By  NERIMA WAKO-OJIWA

Driving through the busy streets of Nairobi around nine one morning, the taxi driver asked me if I were enjoying the music.

I said that it didn’t bother me. At that moment, I was busy responding to my flood of WhatsApp messages from the night before.

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