Team of engineers and experts from the University of Nairobi produced five Kenyan-made vehicles in 1990

The story is told of how former President Moi in the 1980s asked the University of Nairobi to come up with a car “however ugly or slow it may be”. And sure, the engineers went to work and the car finally rolled off the production lines few years later.

But as designer and researcher Jonathan Kasumba writes in his Africa Automotive Design Association blog, “The cars were not ugly. They were not very slow (either). During the test runs, the cars could attain a speed of 120km per hour!”

images source: aada-african-car.blogspot.com

With fanfare, five prototypes of the car christened “Nyayo Pioneer” were launched in 1990. This was good news, a Kenyan-made vehicle had arrived.
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