All 32 Uses of
Nairobi
in
Listening for Lions
- In British East Africa, where I was living, the influenza began in the seaport of Mombasa, traveled three hundred miles to the city of Nairobi, and from there crept onto the farms and plantations and into the Kikuyu and Masai shambas.†
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- There was a large hospital in Nairobi for white people and another for the native Africans, but the city was a long drive over bad roads.
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- When I went into Nairobi with my parents to McKinnon's store, it was by oxcart.†
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- My favorite place in Nairobi was the Indian bazaar, with its wonderful smells and its counters heaped with spices.†
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- On the very few occasions I had been allowed to accompany Mother and Father to Nairobi, the planters we saw going about on the streets appeared well behaved.†
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- Although I looked forward to the excitement of a visit to Nairobi, there was more than enough to amuse me in the African countryside.†
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- I had heard that in Nairobi there were cases of influenza in both the native hospital and the hospital for whites.†
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- We heard that the hospitals in Nairobi were so crowded, they were not accepting patients.†
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- I had seen it once in Nairobi, with Mrs. Pritchard and her daughter riding in the back.†
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- There was no time to take her into Nairobi.†
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- It was the last place I wanted to go, but I had to let the authorities in Nairobi know we had no doctor here.†
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- In the meantime, perhaps a doctor in Nairobi would come out once or twice a week to supervise the nurses and father's assistant so that the hospital could remain open.†
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- I wonder if you would be kind enough to inform the officials in Nairobi.†
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- Make yourself comfortable while Mr. Pritchard calls Nairobi.†
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- "I've notified the hospital in Nairobi to see about a doctor keeping an eye on your hospital.†
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- Is there someone in Nairobi who could contact the board?†
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- Perhaps to the native hospital in Nairobi, but their families would not be able to accompany them.†
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- I didn't think they would be happy in the city of Nairobi without their families.†
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- I can't tell you how many in Nairobi are ill.†
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- An official from the government in Nairobi came and said the hospital would be closed and everyone must leave.†
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- The government men in Nairobi would say we took you away.†
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- Mrs. Pritchard was to accompany me on the train that would take me on the overnight trip from Nairobi to Mombasa, where I would board the ship.†
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- As we left Nairobi, we traveled along the Athi River with its thick grasses and herds of animals.†
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- I paid no attention to these stories until one afternoon she said, "I once saw your parents in Nairobi at a Government House garden party.†
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- It was too far for the Africans in the bush to go all the way into Nairobi.†
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- When I thought of a city, I thought of Nairobi, with its two or three unpaved roads and its handful of government buildings and stores.†
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- The train from Mombasa to Nairobi chugged along slowly, but now I didn't care, for on either side of the railway were the familiar tall grasses and flat-topped acacia trees, and in the distance my old friend, Mount Kenya.†
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- Medicines and surgical equipment were waiting for me in Nairobi, and so was my automobile, a Ford truck that I could use to carry supplies to Tumaini.†
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- As I turned off the main road from Nairobi onto the road that led to Tumaini, a road that I had known well, I hesitated.†
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- He had once been to Nairobi and had seen the three-story hotel.†
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- He confided to me, "A Kikuyu from Nairobi visited the shambas and spoke of 'Africa for the Africans.'†
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- By day I was overwhelmed by wasiwasi: a crooked wall, men who did not show up for work, constant trips into Nairobi to bring back supplies in the little truck.†
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Definition:
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(Nairobi) the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris