Kenya: Tribalism and Public Toilets

28 October 2013
opinion

Visit almost any public buildings in Kenya and one thing that you will not find is a usable public toilet. If you foolishly left home not prepared or in the company of children then you are faced with certain choices and consequences. Depending on the urgency, your rank in society and who you are going to see in the office building you may have the privilege of asking one of the staff to allow you to use, their usually locked, facility.

If you are of a high enough rank, you may even be allowed to use the boss's own VIP washrooms and so not suffer being offered the use of space that may or may not meet the proper definition of a toilet. If you do not have any such luck then the choice is perhaps to visit one the shopping malls that every major town now has.

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