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Traders and Matatus
6:46
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Recordist's notes
A busy market street in the inner city; many wholesalers shops where street traders buy their goods; long lines of Matatu’s waiting and “hunting” for customers…. Playlists of recordings from Nairobi are archived under “Sauti Nairobi” or “Nairobi Conversations” at archive.org: http://www.archive.org/details/Sauti_Nairobi
About the place
Nairobi is a city of about 4,397,073 people in Nairobi County, Kenya. OttoAnna lists 4 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Nairobi Central, Nairobi, Kenya - Traders and Matatus...” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0