Nostalgia: Being wanted in Nairobi estates was bad news

A young boy woth tyre of mfara was it was called

There were enemies and then there were mtaa enemies who placed a ‘wanted’ on your mango head back in the day when freedom of movement was restricted by an ‘active wanted.’

Diplomacy was still in its Neanderthal stage! The ‘wanted’ was fleshed from films in which a villain was the ‘Most Wanted Person.’ But in mtaa za Nairobi the ‘wanted’ was mostly meted out by a rival gang in the hood.