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A network of privately-owned and operated vans and minibuses, colloquially named matatus, have dominated Kenya’s urban public transportation industry since the 1950s [Ramussen 418]. The matatu industry began as a scattered movement of Kenyan entrepreneurs driving “pirate taxis” [Heinze 8]. When the then colonial government of Kenya failed to supply affordable and accessible public transportContinue reading “What is the Matatu Industry?”