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Its headquarters and the National Museum (Nairobi National Museum) are located on Museum Hill, near Uhuru Highway between Central Business District and Westlands in Nairobi. The National Museum of Kenya was founded by the East Africa Natural History Society (E.A.N.H.S.) in 1910; the society's main goal has always been to conduct an ongoing ...
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. [1] Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, [1] founded the NGO WildlifeDirect ...
Skeleton belonging to Ahmed on display at Nairobi National Museum. Ahmed (1919–1974) was a Kenyan elephant with unusually large tusks. [1] He spent some of his time in the area of Mount Marsabit, and was the first elephant to be protected under Kenyan presidential decree. [2] He was the subject of a Google Doodle on 6 December 2023.
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. [2] The Karen Blixen Museum is open every day between 09:30 and 18:00, including on weekends and public holidays. [2]
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UTC+3. Mukuru is a collection of slums in the city of Nairobi. It is approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of the central business district of Nairobi. It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi. It stretches along the Nairobi – Ngong River, situated on waste lands in the industrial area of the city between the Outering Ring Road, North ...
It is Africa's fourth-largest stock exchange in terms of trading volume, capable of making 10 million trades a day. It also contains the Nairobi National Park. Nairobi joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2010. Nairobi was founded in 1899 by colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda - Kenya ...
A fire swept through the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on the evening of March 7. About 1,000 residents of the area lost their homes in October when another blaze burned ...