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NAIROBI, Oct. 27--"I will not give up," said Kenyan taxi driver Moses Karanja on Friday as he tried to wriggle through a heavy traffic along Uhuru Highway into city center, Nairobi. "Business is not very good, but I will not join them just yet," he added. It is about four years since taxi-hailing apps that include Uber, Taxify and Little Cabs were introduced in Kenya, but Karanja and many other taxi drivers across the East African nation have resisted the apps, sticking to the old way of doing business. Karanja normally parks his vehicle at a spot on Kimathi Street in Nairobi's central business district, and atop the vehicle he puts a sign reading "taxi" in hunt for customers. "I have been in this business for about 15 years, and I love it. On this spot I have parked my vehicle in search for customers for the last five years," he said. Initially, it would not take him an hour before he gets a customer but since the introduction of the hailing apps, Karanja has faced tough times. He sometimes sits in the vehicle for up to three hours without getting calls to pick someone or a customer walking up to him. He blames it all on the taxi-hailing apps, which, however, he is not ready to join. "Those apps have eaten into our business. Look at all these vehicles," he said, pointing to several vehicles of his colleagues parked on the street. "Most of them have not had any business since morning and it is because of the apps," he added. | 
