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Kenyatta Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya. Coordinates. 1°17′12″S 36°49′04″E / . 1.286789°S 36.817833°E. / -1.286789; 36.817833. Type. Art Gallery. The Nairobi Gallery ( Swahili: Nyumba ya sanaa ya Nairobi) is an art gallery located an at the edge of the Nairobi central business district. The gallery is dedicated to showcasing African art.
Kibera ( Kinubi: Forest or Jungle [1]) is a division and neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) from the city centre. [2] Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the largest urban slum in Africa. [3] [4] [5] The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census reports Kibera's population as 170,070, contrary to previous estimates ...
African Heritage House is a national monument [1] in Kenya, classified and gazetted under the National Museums and Heritage Act in 2016. Designed by Alan Donovan, [2] built to preserve forgotten architectural designs of the African continent. The house [3] is facing the Nairobi national park, and the public can visit the house for a tour ...
Nairobi is the African Great Lakes region's sporting centre. The premier sports facility in Nairobi and generally in Kenya is the Moi International Sports Centre in the suburb of Kasarani. The complex was completed in 1987, and was used to host the 1987 All Africa Games. The complex comprises a 60,000 seater stadium, the second largest in the ...
Happy Valley set. The Happy Valley set was a group of mostly British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and adventurers who settled in the "Happy Valley" region of the Wanjohi Valley, near the Aberdare mountain range, in colonial Kenya between the 1920s and the 1940s. During the 1930s, the group became infamous for its hedonistic, decadent lifestyles ...
The Kenya National Highways Authority issued an alert warning motorists to brace for heavy traffic and debris that blocked the roads around Naivasha and Narok, west of the capital, Nairobi. The wider East African region is experiencing flooding due to the heavy rains, and 155 people have reportedly died in Tanzania while more than 200,000 ...
t. e. The demography of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in East Africa. Its total population was at 47,558,296 as of the 2019 census. [1] A national census was conducted in 1999, although the results were never released.
However, this site was not where the Out of Africa was filmed, as the pictures were taken in Blixen's first farmhouse, Mbagathi, nearby, where she lived between 1914 and 1917. Nowadays the museum is situated in the upscale Nairobi suburb named "Karen," which was created by the land re-parceling of the coffee farm, after Blixen's return to Denmark.