Blind Man Roams the Globe: Nairobi

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Peter White explores Nairobi through the sounds of the African city. He listens to local radio, he takes in the sounds of restaurants, travel systems and the voices of the locals. In Nairobi he finds a city struggling to reconcile expansion and commercialisation with the hit and miss access to disabled facilities and the worries about safety around the city.

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0:00.0	It's Saturday afternoon in Central Nairobi and I have the interesting task that I am a
0:10.6	blind man meeting another blind man which will not be made easier by the fact that
0:16.0	Rhine-N-Rame is absolutely rammed. It doesn't matter whether you walk or what form of transport you take. This is a pretty gridlocked city at the moment.
0:27.0	People are out shopping, they're out having fun, they're going to markets.
0:32.0	Hello?
0:33.0	My name is Francis.
0:34.0	Hello Francis.
0:35.0	Yes, pain.
0:36.0	It's nice to meet you.
0:37.0	Yeah, and we have Johnson.
0:38.0	Are you Johnson?
0:39.0	We found you.
0:40.0	I wondered how we were actually going to do this. So Johnson, it's good I was just
0:44.9	explaining why I was being so silly as to find another blind man to guide me around
0:52.1	the city.
0:54.0	it's been a long process making contact with Johnson
0:57.0	because he has come down from the airport
1:01.0	on a Mottatu to meet us in the center of town and he's going to, to some
1:07.6	extent, show us around and show how he copes.
1:11.2	But his experience will be the same as mine. He will appreciate this city the way I do by its sounds,
1:19.0	by its smells, by its gradients, by its wind, by all those things which are anything but sight.
1:28.0	So this is the part of the quiet places in town
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