Kibuye Market in Kisumu is reputed to be one of the largest in Kenya; it certainly seems quite possible that it is ! It operates all day on Sundays, and on a very small scale in the week. We walked through a couple of times on a Sunday afternoon. I didn't like to openly take pictures of people, so I'm afraid I cheated, by leaving my camera turned on, and held at waist level, where I clicked the shutter button every so often, and in that way took about 200 photos ... some turned out to be of the ground or the sky, but looked at together, they provided me with a wonderful record of this very vibrant market and the people therein.
The 'stalls' are mostly on the ground, arranged in 'areas', for example, all the clothes sellers are together, all the cabbage sellers in another area, and so on. In the dry season, the dirt and dust and rubbish everywhere can't be too much of a problem ... but when the rainy season was in full swing ... I can imagine the ankle deep mud, rubbish, dung, and rotting vegetables must have made the place quite different to what we saw.
Sellers of secondhand clothing from donor countries in Europe and the USA
Sandals made from recycled old car tyres, much favoured by the Maasai !
Cabbages by the thousand !
Tomatoes ...
... and one of the ladies who sold tomatoes.
Charcoal sellers
Slogans advocating safe sex are everywhere to be seen
Baskets ... I bought ten of these to bring back as gifts !
Sukumu wiki (a type of kale) ... either sold as whole leaves or ready shredded !
This older lady has a typical Luo face
My all time favourite fruit ...mangoes !
Stall on the right selling combs, clothes pegs and small items
Oranges ... yes, they are green in Kenya !
More clothes for sale
Dry goods ... beans, maize, cassava ...
Small, sun-dried (and rather smelly) lake fish sold by the tinful
Carrying the shopping home
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