I happened to be in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, attending a conference, on March 4, 2014, when the city’s taxi operators embarked on a globally reported city-wide protest against higher parking fees imposed on them by the authorities. That fateful day, public transport was paralysed, and many people were forced to walk to work after roads were barricaded – so even private vehicles could not move. In the well-organised protest, the…
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