Vibrant minibuses – known as matatus – fill the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, blaring music as they bounce and weave through traffic. Each matatu is louder than the next, complete with graffiti-style ...

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For the past 10 years, the Kenyan government had forbidden any external painting on Nairobi’s shared taxis -- matatus -- other than a standard yellow stripe. But the Kenyan president has recently ...

“Transportation turned performance art: Nairobi’s matatu crews,” The New York Times titled its in-depth article on Nairobi’s vibrant and over-the-top matatu culture. Over the years, long before the ...

Did Kenyans invent the matatu? Certainly not. But perhaps we discovered it. Kenyans turned the tiny 14-seater van into a phenomenon that has come to represent everything ugly — and beautiful — about ...

Yes, that is the late Libyan leader Moammar Ghadafi. On a bus. In Nairobi. Picture yourself standing at a bus station in Nairobi, Kenya. The unwritten rule is that none of these minibuses (shared ...

Picture yourself standing at a bus station in Nairobi, Kenya. The unwritten rule is that none of these minibuses (shared taxis, called matatus) will leave until they have enough passengers. That can ...