Utamaduni Craft Centre

This guide to Utamaduni Craft Centre in Nairobi takes on a market that behaves nothing like one: eighteen separate rooms inside an old converted house near Langata, each quoting a single fixed price with no haggling allowed. It weighs the two stories visitors tell about that policy, some annoyed to find pieces cheaper on Biashara Street or near the Giraffe Centre, others relieved to skip the pressure of bargaining altogether. Along the way it asks what a market loses when nobody negotiates, and what tourists worn out from safari circuits are really paying for.