Nakumatt Mega City!
After visiting a wide scope of rural markets, it’s always jarring to enter a Nakumatt. Nakumatt is an Indian-run chain of supermarkets that give Walmart a run for its money. Kisumu is lucky enough to be home to the biggest Nakumatt in the country, the mega city!
In a city where a skyscraper is two stories and all restaurants specialize in tilapia and ugali (cornmeal), the Nakumatt (with its own furniture floor!) really does feel like a city of its own.
You are welcomed by a dozen checkout counters, a small reminder of home.
There are always buses of students coming through the Nakumatt, a special field trip destination for rural schools.
The fresh produce is all local and organic. The selection of mangoes is mouth-watering.
An Omo pyramid. Omo is a popular brand of detergent that my boss Clarice helped formulate back at Unilever. Specially developed for hand washing and typically sold in small packets.
Speaking of Clarice, the magnificent Coke aisle.
A selection of local beers, including everyone’s favorite: Tusker.
This one’s for you, Chris.
Something you wouldn’t see in the US, water containers are ubiquitous in Kenya.
The exact wheelbarrows replicated by jua kali (artisans) all over the country. Oh, and lawnmowers.
This one’s for you, Ross.
The barbecue department.
Baby City!
To encourage reading, an old “Jewish saying.”
8 notes
Leave a note
Analogue Digital explores how human systems interact with digital ones: how interfaces affect our relationship with the world, how craft culture and modern technology are colliding in unprecedented ways, and how to reach those who have yet to cross the digital divide.
I'm Steve Daniels. I study the transformative impact of technology on individuals and societies. I am the founder of the Better World by Design conference at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design and a founding partner of Revolution x Design, a Providence-based research center that uses design to address meaningful, real-world problems. Currently, I work at IBM Research, where I study mobile social computing in emerging markets.
I am particularly interested in how people create, adapt, and use technology in resource-constrained environments, which I have written about in my book Making Do: Innovation in Kenya's Informal Economy, which you can read here.
I also design and develop websites. Here's my portfolio.
- Agriculture
- Art
- Business
- Connectivity
- Culture
- Day-to-Day
- Design
- Education
- Energy
- Finance
- Green
- Health
- Household
- ICT
- Informal
- Manufacture
- Materials
- News
- Observed
- Politics
- Rural
- Safari
- Technology
- Tour
- Transport
- Urban
- AfriGadget
- Changeism
- Emerging Futures Lab
- Future Perfect
- Information Aesthetics
- Konigi
- Make
- Maker Faire Africa
- Pasta&Vinegar
- REculture
- Smarter Planet
- Timbuktu Chronicles
- White African
I want to buy a solar panel of 80wts and above. Please kindly give info. on the models available and their quotations.
Tobias
ehhh! i used to came to diz supermacket every sunday
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood now i am in ussssssssaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!! wha wha wha wha wha :-p
i love nakumat in kisumu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to know if guys stock ceramic tiles, and how much is a box of 12 pcs. Also how is the cost for lawn mower for cutting grass
I would like to know how much a digital camera costs. Please send me name and model number as well as the price. Maybe you have a website that I can look this up. maybe you can design a website for Nakumatt.
Thank you.
Jack.