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Community
FROM
BIRDSONGS TO
BULLDOZERS:
The Human Cost of
Nairobi’s Construction
Boom
John Wills Njoroge, Nairobi Kenya.
t is 4:30 a.m. in Nairobi and all night the
pregnant clouds obliged thanks to the
climate change crisis that ushered the rain
Ithat descended indiscriminately disturbing
the human rest sequence. The clouds are dark, and the
showers are unkind and unforgiving. The community
where birds once kept tweeting when trees waved at
each other in the area are no more. The breeze that
helped share scented smells has become cruel to
the iron sheets and the wind is no longer cool to the
community.
The leaves are no longer present because power saw
blades paved the way for the ruler-ship of the concrete
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