"In Nairobi, the showcase of globalised Kenya and its full capitalistic growth, the figure of the walker symbolises migrations at different scales. In life trajectories, the city appears like a temporary place for social promotion and enrichment, and therefore a stopover point for a growing number of Kenyans. In daily migrations, the CBD acts like powerful lungs, breathing in costumed businessmen and breathing them out in an asphyxiating cloud of matatus and 4x4s. In this staturated flux of contrasted destinies, the figure of the walker is also the one of a society that marches at different speeds; that builds and fragments itself like a house of cards."
A photo essay by Olivier Marcel, 2009.
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