Word: nairobi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wedding last year in Lamu, a coastal town in Kenya, a mob of 2,000 hounded them, forcing them to hide in a hall of a museum where the ceremony was to take place. "In African culture the act is forbidden," says Philip Mwangi, a security guard at a Nairobi supermarket. "People get angry when they hear about it. Why should a man marry another man when we have so many rural ladies hanging there...
...atmosphere of hostility, honesty is usually impossible. Ted Ochilo, 35, a gay courier in Nairobi (and who, like all the homosexual Kenyan men and women who spoke to TIME, asked not to be identified by his real name), married because "I am an only son and my parents insisted I produce an heir." But he has been in a gay relationship for the past five years and hides his sexuality from his wife, two children and co-workers for fear of being ostracized. "Being gay is something that people, if they have a choice, should not get involved with...
...large Zaire outbreaks Ebola emerged in areas so remote that there was little, if any, threat of spread to other countries, including the U.S. Gulu, however, is connected to Uganda's capital by a paved highway, and flights from the now-prospering Kampala depart daily to London, Paris, Johannesburg, Nairobi and other African locales. The threat of spread in this case is a bit more real...
...landed in the "boma," a crude, isolated group of tents surrounded by thornbushes that Baraka used for punishment. For smaller matters like swearing or sleeping in class, discipline worked on a point system. Staying out of trouble earned students safaris, video nights and trips to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, three hours south of the school...
...landed in the "boma," a crude, isolated group of tents surrounded by thornbushes that Baraka used for punishment. For smaller matters like swearing or sleeping in class, discipline worked on a point system. Staying out of trouble earned students safaris, video nights and trips to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, three hours south of the school...