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The wild and shocking things that taxi drivers see

By SILAS NYANCHWANI and SHEILA KIMANI

Driving a taxi in Nairobi is dangerous. Thugs want your money, drunk married women want you to ‘prove you are a man’; prostitutes want to pay you in kind after a bad day at work. It’s not a job for the soft hearted.

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