the man of the picture is Kariuki. he's a Matatu driver in Kenya. Matatu is the most commonly used public transport there. But his different from the other matatu drivers, who are seen as violent and dangerous people. Kariuki has undertook the mission of writing about matatu driver's daily life. During the experience with BBC, we could see how was treatment towards them. Besides form being stereotyped as I have said before, they are also controlled by the corrupt Kenyan police. They could be caught for anything and would have to pay big amounts of money or going to prison. They have been named the black sheeps of Kenya.
The matatu drivers situation is very similar to that of mototaxistas here in Barranquilla. For a lot of Barranquilleros is the only way avalaible they have to give something to eat to their childs. As some of mototaxistas have been involved in crimes, alla of them have been stereotyped to be dangerous and killers. the truth is that they aren't all like that, but also they need to be controlled by the state in the aspect of respectign transport rules for the security of all citizens.
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