UNO On the great lawn at the UN headquarters in Nairobi, UNON building, United Nations Office Nairobi, stands an elephant made of straw. It misses a leg, but from a distance it seems to me to be very realistic. The whole compound is enormous, a part of the landscape. On the horizon, you see people walking around, UN employees, jogging for recreation. To balance things out, I take off my shoes and smoke another cigarette. The grass is hard, and the individual blades are set far apart from each other, so you can see the earth in between. I’m not sure if you can walk around barefoot, or if there might be small animals, snakes, insects, plants, African hazards, that you drop dead from if you step on.