BasiGo — The Bus That Was a Contract
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Sometime in the second week of April, 2020, the people of Nairobi looked up and saw something they had not seen in years.
Kenya was locked down. Public transport had stopped. The matatus — the loud, painted minibuses that move four out of every five Kenyans who travel — were idle in their depots. The diesel buses were parked. And in their absence, the air above the city cleared so completely that, for the first time in living memory, Mount Kenya was visible from the rooftops of the capital. Two hundred kilometres away. A mountain that had been hidden by the city's own breath.
