The Old Nairobi town

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The old Nairobi town
is in everything he tells me
Everything he tells me sounds like the old Nairobi town
The old Nairobi town
in the 60s, 70s when it had just became ours
Where everyone knows everybody_ million smiles paint the sky
And these smiles mean victory
a new page, and its up to us to now create history

The old Nairobi town
where the jambos were met with harambee
We are free, we are free....
Everything he tells me reminds my soul that we are together in this....
now when we have nothing and forever when we build a table so large to share
There is no conmen, or lies, or darkness from those who pass us by because
in the old Nairobi town
we wish each other well_ harambee_
Everything he tells me
Sounds like the old Nairobi town
Peaceful, still holding to its name_ city in the sun_ green as emerald
small city and plenty of space
Paint yourself everywhere, let your magic shine on this town
small parks and a river so blue.... the old nairobi river
Everything he tells me reminds me of Wangari Maathai
Fight on...
Fights with me to survive

 This old Nairobi feeling, the old Nairobi town


old postcard of Nairobi found on google
Namatsi Lukoye

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