Tucked between the sprawling Kariokor area and Gikomba market, in Nairobi, is Kariokor Crematorium, whose deathly silence welcomes visitors into an expansive and serene land of the dead.

NAIROBI: About 7,000 leather-shoe craftsmen at Nairobi’s informal Kariokor Market will be provided machinery to automate their operations. This is as the State seeks to cut reliance on imports ...