A bustling city, Mombasa is a model of diversity and multiculturalism where minarets of mosques and towers of churches rise above the city. Many residents are awakened in the morning by the sonoric call to prayer from the muezzin or the booming music from megaphones mounted on rooftops of flourishing evangelical churches.
Mombasa also offers a sad reminder that most African cities have lost their innocence. There is a flourishing sex trade and a burgeoning gay culture...
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