Think Kenyatta Avenue, Muindi Mbingu or Kimathi ... near the Nairobi River was extra swampy. Gachanja recalls that in the 1950s, there was a popular Indian curry house called Friends Corner ...

Kimathi Street is one of Nairobi ... of Emperor’s Cinema, then Nairobi’s swankiest movie theatre. Then there’s The Sarova Stanley, majestically tucked in a corner plot since the turn ...