Kisumu Boda Interview at 2.00

May 23, 2026 08:59 · 3:53 · English · Whisper Turbo · 3 Høyttalere

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S… Speaker 1 (Kisumu Boda Interview at 2.00)

Yes.

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S… Speaker 2 (Kisumu Boda Interview at 2.00)

All right.

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Okay.

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So my name is Dorcas.

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I am one of the authors of the Cycling Cities African Experience.

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And I contributed to the book,

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to the chapter on Nairobi.

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Nairobi is one of the unique cities across all the cities that

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are in the book.

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because it didn't have any bicycle manufacturing,

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for example.

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It had a share of people riding bicycles before the colonial period,

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but the automobile was taken up already when it was being introduced in

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US America.

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It was also being introduced in Nairobi very actively.

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And what we see standing out is because the Queen Elizabeth was

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inaugurated in Kenya and there was a big show to welcome her.

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And one of the displays in the park was this car that was displayed

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as the future of this British colony and the future of the

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city of Nairobi.

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So it quickly turned into a car -centric city.

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And after independence,

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the city blew up eight times.

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So distances went far out.

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People were not able to cycle as much as they were cycling.

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for shorter distances and so the car became the preferred mode of mobility

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but also for status the informal public transport became

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popular to transport people in this now massively grown city

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but what we're witnessing now is a change that people are

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trying to reclaim the city's back for cycling we have a critical

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mass group that cycles

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every last month of every last year of the month and

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it's a group that is now currently made up of more than 400 cyclists

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who come together male female children to cycle to bring

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awareness on improving infrastructure for cycling in the city

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And the bicycle we are standing in front of is connected to

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Kisumu but actually it comes from Nairobi.

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Can you tell a little bit about this Boda Boda?

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S… Speaker 2 (Kisumu Boda Interview at 2.00)

What is a Boda Boda?

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First of all,

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Boda Boda is a term that comes from Kisumu

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because it was...

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Kisumu is a cycling city and it stayed...

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as a cycling city for a much longer period than Kenya.

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And it comes from a period where people were being

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transported from the border of Kenya to the border of Uganda

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in Busia,

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which is close to Kisumu.

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So moving from border to border were these people.

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They used to wear pink shirts as uniform.

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And so if you wanted to rent a bicycle,

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you would just say,

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border,

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border, because I'm going from border to border.

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So that's where the word comes from.

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and yeah and we got this bike in I would say just at

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the outskirts of Nairobi it's another county that borders Nairobi and we were very

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intrigued with what the person had done all this tinkering of the bicycle to

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show with the lights and and he also had a speaker to attract people to

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come and to ride with him he

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also has a payment system so you will see also a phone number where

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you can send money to pay to him if you don't have cash at

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hand

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And we just stopped him on the street and we asked him questions.

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How did you make your bike?

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And he explained to us and we asked him,

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can we buy it because we're interested in it?

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He was very hesitant at first because it's a means of livelihood for him.

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but i think we gave him a good deal to enable him to

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buy another bike that will continue the same lifestyle for him and we did confirm

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actually that he has another bike and he has painted it exactly the way he's

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painted this one so red and black and and green which are which are

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the colors of the kenyan flag so he's a very patriotic fella

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um yeah so that's the story of how we got the bike yeah

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