I did go past… where was it… Kawangware? I think?
I've never felt so much like a parodic stereotype of my own background[0] in my life as I did that day.
But that, in broad brushstrokes rather than details, is what most people's lives used to look like 200 or so years ago, basically everywhere.
50 years? 1973; back then, even the UK broadly didn't have double glazed windows, cavity wall or roof insulation, even in good middle-class homes. That was only a decade after we stopped calling Kenya a colony.
[0] British