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The padlock is small but carries more than its weight. It is used to secure buildings, boxes in high school, cash boxes and bicycles, among others.
It has a long and checkered history. It’s also personal to me, maybe because we never had padlocks in our home when growing up.
I reported to Form One with a padlocked box. It was a school in Nairobi whose name is not disclosed for security reasons. That shattered my respect for the city. Was it not supposed to be more civilised than my remote village? Why does the city have thieves? The other downgrading for the city was beggars. Never saw one before coming to the city.
Impersonal people also took me by surprise. What of slums that are worse than houses in rural areas?
