@@chomasensiit's in Japanese culture to be obsessed with cleanliness. Plus have you heard of New Yorkers complaining about literal shit in the streets? Plus Nairobi has some very clean areas and the city wasn't as big then.
Something we don't take for a fact was that colonial admistrations were unsustainable. They were pegged for such a small minority, the rest of the regions were largely neglected. It is sad , but also not to take blame away from inept leadership.
My mum was born at this time I moved to Nairobi after secondary school in 2007 after skirmishes started hustling in industrial then got a job in Njimia Pharmacy cooperative House quit back home come again In Nairobi late 2012 worked in Eastleigh got married in 3 YEARS LATER WENT back to college nopw I am in Bahrain Nairobi made me to be Man and travel the world.
They really did. It seems like we've experienced a downgrade in some parts of the city not just physically (infrastructure), but culturally/socially too.
They say Nairobi was better organized back then. As one born in the late 80's, this video is a gem. If you pay very close attention, it would appear that the city was just less congested, less full back then-not necessarily better organized. Pay close attention, perhaps I am wrong though.
we need to get rid of matatus and have proper transportation system like trams, invest in bicycle infrastructure ect. Also we need to kill this car obsession that's plaguing our cities and neighborhoods!
I am still around. I was 6 to 7 years old then and the area shown in the video (Biashara Street, Moi Avenue, and River Road conjunction) was my stomping ground. Nairobi was more laid back then and easy to get around and run errands in what is now called the CBD.
@@projectskipchumba536 Man. Fuck that place. I can really imagine where this dude lived because there's lots of very old Indian architecture along that road.
I feel like those who grew up in Kenya in the 1980s somewhat saw a great deal of the buildings in the video as they were....and certainly some of the streets.
Yes grew up in Nairobi in the 1980s and saw some of the same buildings and even shops were still there.Some of the architecture is still there but there have been a number of buildings and changes in the Nairobi skyline was shocking to visit there after being overseas for more than 15 years.
This is the Nairobi I remember (1959 - 1973). Can't forget the area around Biashara and Moi Ave. (It was Bazaar Street and Govt. Road then). I would be culture shock if I were to visit.
I remember as a kid being driven to the hospital in 87. It was nice! Zero traffic even with tiny roads, but the rot was already in progress. It still looked a million times better than today.
Yep....I grew up in the 70's and 80's between Nakuru, Kericho and Nairobi and I loved how quaint these towns were. Enjoyed the amenities- Nairobi club, RVSP ( NKU) , Kericho Golf and the Tea hotel. Nairobi city center had boutiques instead of the crazy exhibitions and it was hawker free. We lived in Upper Hill which was purely residential. I'm not too crazy about skyscrapers and overpopulation.
I saw the city at it's best growing up and finishing high school in 1970. Back then we simply took it for granted and didn't appreciate the efforts made by the people in charge to keep the city in that condition. Nairobi was uncrowded, neat, quiet, and safe. Black, white and brown people mixed freely, shops didn't have metal grills, public transport was orderly and smooth, the people were decently dressed and civilized. I saw it all, until corruption and looting began in the late seventies. The rest is history and no one feels sad for Nairobi more than those of us who actually witnessed the decay. I'm now 71 and I wouldn't dare enter the city now, it's dead.
The infrastructure that was done in the colonial era i guess couldn’t be able to handle this kind of population we have now i guess that’s where we are now. Eg. drainage, water, road and the like
This was just 2 years after Independence?? 2 years ago they were slaves and yet they were soooo organised, learned, well-dressed, unbelievable. Even someone not in white-collar job was tucked in and neat. You would think we're in 1965 and they're in 2023
@@tardytoe836well I bet you think that due to higher school enrollment rate but fail to regard it's diminishing quality over the years. Our poor education quality is a documented fact and one way to see it is the lack of skills and competencies once people are out of school. If you also see a random educated Kenyan talk back in 1960s and take one now there's a very big difference in their cognitive capacity where the former is clearly more analytical than the latter. We process a banch of illiterates and call that education.
@@tardytoe836 there is a difference between literate "able to read and write" and educated... you can be all literate you want but ignorant, uncultured & uneducated person
People talking about how clean and peaceful it looked, and they are right. But I noticed one bad thing: no trees! Looks like Nairobi's "Green City in the Sun" reputation is more recent.
Nairobi city looked clean and organised.
Not really, pay a closer look. It is just less congested, less full.
Overpopulation cannot allow cleanliness nowadays 😂😂😂
@@benomae9890 Tokyo begs to differ.
@@chomasensi 😂😂😂😂😂visual evidence is importance.
@@chomasensiit's in Japanese culture to be obsessed with cleanliness.
Plus have you heard of New Yorkers complaining about literal shit in the streets?
Plus Nairobi has some very clean areas and the city wasn't as big then.
The town was pristine back in the day. I hope we can restore Nairobi to its glory days.
@@realAfrican europe and other western countries are dirty too , what are you trying to imply??
@realAfrican Yes, we are. Look at eastlands...dirty and disorganized.
@@realAfrican It is definitely our fault. Bad leadership is to blame.
Something we don't take for a fact was that colonial admistrations were unsustainable. They were pegged for such a small minority, the rest of the regions were largely neglected. It is sad , but also not to take blame away from inept leadership.
word of the day... "HOPE"
One skill we've pushed down the generations is 'mkokoteni' 😭
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lmaoo😭
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Literally pushing 😂
Aki 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Glad to have discovered this video...I love how people lived a simple lifestyle back then unlike today, we have many things going on.
My mum was born at this time I moved to Nairobi after secondary school in 2007 after skirmishes started hustling in industrial then got a job in Njimia Pharmacy cooperative House quit back home come again In Nairobi late 2012 worked in Eastleigh got married in 3 YEARS LATER WENT back to college nopw I am in Bahrain Nairobi made me to be Man and travel the world.
How the women looked graceful and dignified back then !!!
Thanks you Frank, yes indeed
They really did. It seems like we've experienced a downgrade in some parts of the city not just physically (infrastructure), but culturally/socially too.
Culture is what people make it, and I think there are a lot of secrets in that "dignified" outlook...
Yep... Both the native ladies and the so called colonialists
@@themadfarmer5207 “so called”? Wtf 😂😂😂😂
The pavements have never been replaced. They looked neat and intact
Clean, peaceful and organized what a moment back then 😢
This indeed was the City in the 🌞 as some of us do most fondly recall. Nairobi is actually able to regain this status!
never thought i would see a nairobi that looked like this truly surprising
They say Nairobi was better organized back then. As one born in the late 80's, this video is a gem. If you pay very close attention, it would appear that the city was just less congested, less full back then-not necessarily better organized. Pay close attention, perhaps I am wrong though.
You are right.
we need to get rid of matatus and have proper transportation system like trams, invest in bicycle infrastructure ect. Also we need to kill this car obsession that's plaguing our cities and neighborhoods!
It was a white city. We were just allowed in select places - mostly to work. Especially so in the emergency 50s
Car-centric in the 60s and car-centric today...I also thought Nairobi was more organised before but nah
@@MillennialJesus we need that rail like yesterday
That was a lovely place to be back then. Sad to know majority of the people in the video are no longer with us.
I am still around. I was 6 to 7 years old then and the area shown in the video (Biashara Street, Moi Avenue, and River Road conjunction) was my stomping ground. Nairobi was more laid back then and easy to get around and run errands in what is now called the CBD.
Wow! So beautiful and cool back then! Even a rural lover like me could have enjoyed going there. Now I only go to Nairobi when I have to! So sad.
Me too,
looks great
I loved living there during this time!
How much was the land back then?
Where are you living now? I know you probably speak Swahili 😝
How old are you now?
Where my Mum grew up. So amazing to see my history xxx
The footage is astoundingly clear.
16mm footage by the looks of it !!
Saii ni balaa😂😂
Did you notice how 0:56 the shop signs look minimalist and won't knock your head ?
This was my home beautiful that's was NAIROBI was clean as we left 1965 I miss my house on Juja Road where we grow up I miss so ,much.
Nowadays Juja road is a chaotic slum
Where did u move to?
@@projectskipchumba536 Man. Fuck that place. I can really imagine where this dude lived because there's lots of very old Indian architecture along that road.
Juju rd is now a den of thieves. Indians moved to leafy surbabs and those that remained are in parklands or westlands
How was it like those days in Juja Road?
I feel like those who grew up in Kenya in the 1980s somewhat saw a great deal of the buildings in the video as they were....and certainly some of the streets.
Yes grew up in Nairobi in the 1980s and saw some of the same buildings and even shops were still there.Some of the architecture is still there but there have been a number of buildings and changes in the Nairobi skyline was shocking to visit there after being overseas for more than 15 years.
This is the Nairobi I remember (1959 - 1973). Can't forget the area around Biashara and Moi Ave. (It was Bazaar Street and Govt. Road then). I would be culture shock if I were to visit.
I remember as a kid being driven to the hospital in 87. It was nice! Zero traffic even with tiny roads, but the rot was already in progress. It still looked a million times better than today.
Yep....I grew up in the 70's and 80's between Nakuru, Kericho and Nairobi and I loved how quaint these towns were. Enjoyed the amenities- Nairobi club, RVSP ( NKU) , Kericho Golf and the Tea hotel.
Nairobi city center had boutiques instead of the crazy exhibitions and it was hawker free.
We lived in Upper Hill which was purely residential.
I'm not too crazy about skyscrapers and overpopulation.
@@ladysafari01kericho tea Hotel was an icon then. Can't imagine it's now closed
Look at how clean and organised we were
Thank you so so much for this. ♥️
I saw the city at it's best growing up and finishing high school in 1970. Back then we simply took it for granted and didn't appreciate the efforts made by the people in charge to keep the city in that condition. Nairobi was uncrowded, neat, quiet, and safe. Black, white and brown people mixed freely, shops didn't have metal grills, public transport was orderly and smooth, the people were decently dressed and civilized. I saw it all, until corruption and looting began in the late seventies. The rest is history and no one feels sad for Nairobi more than those of us who actually witnessed the decay. I'm now 71 and I wouldn't dare enter the city now, it's dead.
oh wow, i can guess your age, around 71 years old ?
😍 clean. Pavements wide no hawking.. i love it.
My beautifull country ❤
Those are our grandparents working hard 😢
Wow! Its amazing, zebra closings seen very clear
Wow, Kenya was so sophisticated.
There were even well kept lawns in Nairobi 😮 wonders never cease.
Super cute, adorable and clean
Nairobi city centre as I remember it when I was 12/13 years old. Fond memories of my childhood there from 1957 to 1967.
oh wow, how old are you now
(Sigh) I’ll be 71 this coming Wednesday.
RUclips is the closest Time Machine we will ever get
Take me to back then!
Yes, this is my Nairobi. I was in Form2 in 1965. Thanks for the video. Was such a nice place to live
oh wow
Old is gold
Memories are made of this.
..and women walked while letting their purses hung not holding them against their chests..
the road back then were wide and more space left. It seems like there are people who built on road reserves later..
Quite beautiful!
Mtu ali nunua shamba nairobi hii wakati..... U must be very lucky right now
WOW it's beautiful ❤❤❤
Two things i noticed. No motorcycles and the the city looks empty.
Damn the city was so fresh...unlike these days!!
Wow! So clean
I love this
Great job 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Wow🙆this is priceless❤❤❤❤
At least I recognized archives😅
Corruption destroys societies
Wow...love this
City looks clean that time my grand ma was in her 20s ,
I've seen the London bus 🥰🥰
The Nairobi population census in 1965 was 404,000. As of 2019 it's at 4.4 million . Yes it was cleaner then, but you really can't compare .
That's not a good excuse, let us admit that we have failed as Kenyans!!
The infrastructure that was done in the colonial era i guess couldn’t be able to handle this kind of population we have now i guess that’s where we are now. Eg. drainage, water, road and the like
Black people will always have an excuse
The city is beautiful
So beautiful
super clean
Very clean and organized
I love nairobi
Amazingly the same in the late 70s early 80s as it was in the 60's
It looks cleaner and less busy back in the days.
Dignified sense of fashion
Simplicity we used to survive
Wowzers!
I wish I experienced the times.people looking orderly and Smart
Kijabe street hasn’t changed a bit
some of those buildings still unchanged today
Jamia Mosque i remember it am Ethiopian lived in Nairobi Nakumbuka sana ni nchi yanguu ya pilli wa Kenya ni watu wazuri polisi lakini heeeeee ni bala
Utumishi kwa wote
Those vintage cars I adore them today
How and where can I get them?
This is so cool.
This was just 2 years after Independence?? 2 years ago they were slaves and yet they were soooo organised, learned, well-dressed, unbelievable. Even someone not in white-collar job was tucked in and neat. You would think we're in 1965 and they're in 2023
Nairobi has become even much better.There is more green to see. Let's be more positive.More universities, hospitals etcetera Times have changed. 🎉
Io double decker bus is what we need now in nairobi
You can't even compare the women of 1965 and the present day
This were golden days especially in the dressing code
I.miss the seventies
something has changed since independence
Seeing all these yt people and knowing what it took for them to be there is what's sad
Things fall apart
Nairobi was very neat and clean
I like how open the streets were. Now we have metal grills everywhere
People dressed so well ❤
Mi not turning the volume button up knowing very well cameras lacked audio interfaces😂😂😂
Memories
Ngara hasn't changed!
God bless Kenya
🤡 ain't no God in existence !
The only difference with witeithie is that this Nairobi is clean
You mean Zanzibar curio shop is that old? Damn!
The City now is pure chaos
wow
the roads loked better than how they are now
is it just me or does it look better and cleaner than now?
Kenya heaven on earth Zaighem and Kulsoom Rang e mehfil fame
All those adults are they still alive🙏
Nairobi2021 lockdown🙆
looking like cuba nowadays so clean and spacious
Back when we were truly educated and cultured
More educated than today? Illiteracy levels have reduced significantly buddy
@@tardytoe836well I bet you think that due to higher school enrollment rate but fail to regard it's diminishing quality over the years. Our poor education quality is a documented fact and one way to see it is the lack of skills and competencies once people are out of school. If you also see a random educated Kenyan talk back in 1960s and take one now there's a very big difference in their cognitive capacity where the former is clearly more analytical than the latter. We process a banch of illiterates and call that education.
@@tardytoe836 there is a difference between literate "able to read and write" and educated... you can be all literate you want but ignorant, uncultured & uneducated person
@@tardytoe836 not you btw, I'm just talking about the society do not take it personally, I'm just trying to support his point and dismiss yours.
Great differemce minimal congestion, there no human traffic&vehicles traffic jam.................
Most of those adults aren't alive
Nice
One thing you can tell is that it's clean and organized! Can't say that now,sadly"
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Must have been clean safe and fresh
People talking about how clean and peaceful it looked, and they are right. But I noticed one bad thing: no trees! Looks like Nairobi's "Green City in the Sun" reputation is more recent.