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...and for women. From the very start, (Kenyan) women were not considered part of the design of the town. Not in the labour system or the economy.
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If you want to read about the labour force, and gender politics of early Nairobi, there's this really good book...
amazon.com/Comforts-Home-…
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One of the best takeaways from this book is that the women who built Nairobi were first commercial sex workers, then service providers and landladies. Efforts to lock them out of the economy still fail today. But we still have a Victorian attitude towards them...
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