It's like the Harlem
shake. But Nairobi style.
As you can imagine, car drivers in Nairobi don't stop for
pedestrians. This leads to a strange
situation where pedestrians start to cross the road, cars accelerate towards
them, and the pedestrian does what I can only describe as the Nairobi shake to
avoid the cars. How to describe the Nairobi shake? Well, it's both waddling and
bouncing at the same time; the rear end propels the whole body forwards while
arms dangle at the side.
It's a lot easier to watch than for me to describe, so checkout this video (the best examples are where it starts at 1:20 - this link - but there are
plenty of Nairobi shakes in there before and after that. Plus a narration about pedestrians flouting traffic
laws and the threat of them being arrested for attempted suicide. If you are
wondering WTF, just watch it all!)
You know you've been around too long when you find yourself
doing the Nairobi shake as I did today. So if you see some guy crossing the
road like this in Matonge next week, likelihood is it's yours truly!
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Matatu of the week
Look, I'm not going to be able to top the Hitler matatu this week. I'm not sure anything will ever top the Hitler matatu. But I've run into this one quite a few times this week and it makes me laugh. I think it's meant to be latin themed with a dyslexic person trying to write "Marco Polo" along the bottom.
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| Magopollo or Marco Polo? you decide... |
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