As I looked out the van window at the unending conditions that masses of black people live in, I kept going back to London, where we just had been tourists. In London we saw palaces, grandiose churches, and the residue of a generational legacy of imperial wealth. Kenya had been a British colony up until the 1960s, my new Kenyan friend John reminded me. It became very clear how direct a connection there was between the wealth and infrastructure in London and the poverty endured by many of the Kenyan people.
